[wplug] New York park goers to get free Internet Wi-Fi

[Zach]

On 5/16/06, Patrick Wagstrom <pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Yup.  The Schenley Park Cafe is quite nice - y'all should check it out
> sometime.  I've never checked to see if WiFi works when they're closed.
> The new Schenley Plaza has signs advertising free WiFi - that's quite
> cool.

Will have to check it out once I get a laptop with a functioning battery :)

> On to point 2....
>
> NetworkManager[1] is your friend.  Also, it automatically notices what
> wireless networks I'm connected to an picks the correct one.  It's even
> smart enough to notice that when it sees my network it should connect to
> that one over the one run by a neighbor called "CMU" (probably because
> they couldn't get their laptop to work on multiple networks).
>
> On ubuntu: sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
>            nm-applet
>
> It's delicious.

Mmm sounds yummy, thanks!

Zach