[CS-FSLUG] Problem With Wifi Radar At One Site
Don Parris
gnumathetes at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 20:02:18 CDT 2006
On 4/6/06, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got the Linksys wireless NIC working with Ubuntu 5.10 on my laptop
> using NDIS. I did manage to configure a connection to the ministry's
> wireless LAN, and also to the open wireless connection at work. Doing
> that manually isn't much fun, so I thought I would install Wifi-Radar
> to help out. Wifi Radar (WR) will automagically detect the ministry
> LAN, and even another wireless network nearby. Yet, when I get to
> work, WR will not obtain the IP address from the open WLAN.
>
> The Wifi channel/freq at work is the same as the ministry WLAN. There
> is no key for the open WLAN. The only thing that really changes
> between the two is the ESSID and the wireless key (using WEP at the
> moment for the ministry LAN). I did have the open WLAN working
> manually, but Wifi Radar doesn't seem to "get it". Any ideas?
>
> Don
> --
O.k., well, after tinkering in /etc/interfaces and rebooting, I can
get an ip address, but can't seem to do anything else. That's kind of
odd to me.
Don
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