Sometimes the only way to connect to Uniwireless is to keep trying!

Uniwireless_Reconnect.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from subprocess import check_output, call

attempts = 0

# Keep connecting to Uniwireless until you get a valid IP.

while True:
	try:
		ip = check_output( [ "ipconfig", "getifaddr", "en1" ] )
	except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
		continue
	
	if ip.startswith( "172" ):
		print "Connected!"
		break
	else:
		print "Attempt", attempts
		attempts += 1

		call( [ "ifconfig", "en1", "down" ] )
		call( [ "ifconfig", "en1", "up" ] )