[ptone]

Actually – if you look at my OP I mentioned that I was using an InstaDMG methodology, but not the reference tool

hence all I was doing was using the CLI installer tool on a /Volumes/X partition

I’ll have to check the current InstaDMG script for other steps that I should put into my workflow

-Preston

[ptone]

as a follow up – the issue was that by using the installer cmd on a partition and then grabbing that as an image, the owner of / of the restored system was 501:80 instead of root (0:80).

This was preventing the kernel caches from being rebuilt properly

so a:

chown root:admin /
touch /System/Library/Extensions

now startup takes half the time

-Preston

[ptone]

Well in my simpler non .1X world, I’ve gone ahead and just pushed out a machine specific version of the sysconfig/preferences.plist

Since all my machines will be using the standard en0 and en1 interfaces, it seems to work, even though the UUIDs are no longer unique and even the hardware addresses stick from the model machine. So imperfect from a InstaDMG point of view, but gets the job done.

-P

[ptone]

I should clarify that even after visiting the prefpane (and hence, the interfaces are set up), then the CLI utilities I have tried connect to a wireless network just fine, but do not modify the preferred networks list (and so no reconnect on wake)

Some quick experiments with one of my new favorite tools fseventer led me to /lib/prefs/sysconfig/preferences.plist

This is where the airport settings of interest are stored. The problem is that this plist is riddled with UUIDs that cross reference each other, so trying to create what I want would seem impossible with PlistBuddy and a startup item.

Now I’m Curious how well a system “heals” this file, as I have not had major problems pushing it out with images done the “old fashioned way” (Just checked my last years image, and sure enough full of UUIDs from my master machine).

I’m pretty sure a machine without Airport will intelligently deal with the presence of an airport interface in this machine, but I’m still hoping for a “clean” way to populate the airport stuff with some sort of command line…

-Preston

[ptone]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: larkost[/u][p]Are you sure that your network interfaces are setup when you go to do this? Going to the GUI automatically does this, but InstaDMG packages do not do this by default if you manually avoid the apple setup.[/p][/QUOTE]

If by setting up interfaces you mean that the system already knows that en0 is a builtin ethernet and en1 is airport etc, yes.

I can go the the Network prefpane and see the interfaces. Go into and see the list of preferred networks etc. I don’t want to remember every new network, so I’m looking for a way to add my chosen SSID to that list. The com.apple.airport.preferences.plist doesn’t seem to be it.

-Preston

[ptone]

I’m struggling to get this working and I’m not sure why – this is with an open network, so no keychain or 802.1X certs or anything.

First I push out my configured /lib/prefs/sysconfig/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist into the image – but this really seems to do nothing

Then I’ve tried a startup item that calls either:

[code]networksetup -setairportnetwork SSID[/code]

or

[code]/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -z
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -ASSID[/code]
(thats -A with the arg immediately appended)

These work great on BOOT, but change nothing in the preferred networks and so do not help with reconnecting after sleep.

There has to be a way programatically, I can set the changes I want – but a radmind fsdiff doesn’t give any clues – at least that I’m seeing. I really need this on first boot after a clean image application.

-P

[ptone]

Well, FWIW – it actually seems to work fine with the drop-in DVD – didin’t bother to dig any further, I have a retail DVD I’ll use to build my final workflow – but I post this in case someone is searching in the future (I did need to change the volume name to match).

-P

[ptone]

Try this

[code]chflags -R nouchg /path[/code]

That will recurse for a folder, remove the -R and just give it a filepath for a single file

[ptone]

Glad you fixed it, I’ve also seen this if fast user switching is turned on in the client and you switch between two network log ins.

-P

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