Text 8922, 39 rader
Skriven 2007-01-12 17:44:42 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 8917 av MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
Ärende: Melma
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Hey MARTIN!

Jan 12 17:19 07, MARTIN ATKINS wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 MA> My problem is now working out how i set things up to connect to a
 MA> hotel wireless internet service.

My best guess is dhcp.

 MA> The Inspiron came with free wireless
 MA> internet but it is installed in the Win XP set up. 

Right.  I have seen that on a cousin's laptop.  Problem with it is if there is
more then one router in range it creates quite a conflict and he knows nothing
about how to get it configured not to do that.

 MA> I can't seem to
 MA> duplicate it on the Linux OS.

Trust me, you don't want to.  You probably want it to work correctly.  ;-)

 MA> Probably setup with one of the disks
 MA> and authenticated etc. Don't know enough about wireless yet.  

I haven't tried it yet but wireless_tools has a whole mess of apps to fine tune
signals and the such.  I think you'd still need a dhcp client for the hotel
though.  I am going to try udhcpcd later once I rebuild ttylinux-64 here.  Also
kv's later then 2.6.17 have wireless protocols available in the network
section.  So far I have gotten away without wireless_tools just by turning on
those features and adding the rt2500 module but am setting the ip address as
static.  The router doesn't seem to mind.  Stinkin' router.  That is the next
thing that will be hacked here once I get the 64-bit guy tuned to my liking. 
Getting very close.

Life is good,
Maurice

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