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Member Forums => iago's forum => Topic started by: iago on January 28, 2005, 01:59:35 pm

Title: Wireless at school!
Post by: iago on January 28, 2005, 01:59:35 pm

I mentioend this in another thread, but I decided it deserved its own thread.

I'm in St. John's College, which is a cafeteria and dorm and stuff.  I pulled out my laptop to do some work, and discovered that dhcp had found an access point.

My external ip is showing up as pc19.st-john.umanitoba.ca, which means I'm on an official University connection.  That means that, on the plus site, this connection probably won't ever go away.  On the downside, it's probably monitored.

I'll get Gaim going here, and can chat with people during the day, provided that they are willing to get gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net) with the gaim-encryption plugin (http://gaim-encryption.sourceforge.net).  I don't like the idea of being monitored, but I don't mind chatting if it's encrypted.

I'm going to make a seperate account to use here.  When I figure it out and get it made, it'll be time for class.  So I'll let you know Monday :)

Title: Re: Wireless at school!
Post by: MyndFyre on January 31, 2005, 07:50:22 pm

Quote from: iago on January 28, 2005, 01:59:35 pm

I mentioend this in another thread, but I decided it deserved its own thread.

I'm in St. John's College, which is a cafeteria and dorm and stuff.  I pulled out my laptop to do some work, and discovered that dhcp had found an access point.

My external ip is showing up as pc19.st-john.umanitoba.ca, which means I'm on an official University connection.  That means that, on the plus site, this connection probably won't ever go away.  On the downside, it's probably monitored.

I'll get Gaim going here, and can chat with people during the day, provided that they are willing to get gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net) with the gaim-encryption plugin (http://gaim-encryption.sourceforge.net).  I don't like the idea of being monitored, but I don't mind chatting if it's encrypted.

I'm going to make a seperate account to use here.  When I figure it out and get it made, it'll be time for class.  So I'll let you know Monday :)

Hahaha socialist country newb :P  hehe.  DEFY THE STATE!

On a side note, how did you set up wireless on Linux?

Title: Re: Wireless at school!
Post by: iago on January 31, 2005, 09:22:38 pm

Various ways.  There's easy and hard ones.  It's pretty easy if your card is supported.

If you can do:
ifconfig -a

And your wireless card shows up, it's easy from there.  If it's pcmcia, you might need to edit /etc/pcmcia/config.

Title: Re: Wireless at school!
Post by: Mythix on February 01, 2005, 02:33:39 pm

hmm, let me know what times you're on during the week and I'll eleet 3ncryption message you.