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[Don Parris]

On 4/6/06, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I forgot to set the wireless-key = open.  Still, this doesn't solve
the Wifi Radar issue.

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