[wplug] downtown wireless?

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Patrick Wagstrom wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 21:29 -0400, Richard Farina wrote:
>> Zach wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I heard we are getting free wi-fi downtown. I'd like to try it but
>>> I've never used wireless before.
>> I've heard of it, but I have not seen it, and believe me, I would notice ;-)
>>> How do I set it up in Linux? I have a wireless card but don't know how
>>> to install it.
>> you need wireless-tools installed, also the correct driver (not
>> ndiswrapper). Then I suggest "man iwconfig".... of course, I'm a console
>> jockey.
>
> Alternatively, the sane thing is to drop in a Ubuntu Dapper Drake CD and
> watch as it just magically works.  You may want to run "apt-get install
> network-manager-gnome" and then run "nm-applet".  This gives you a fancy
> little pull down menu that lets you select from the available wireless
> networks and handles all the stuff like WEP, WPA1/2 (PSK, Enterprise,
> etc) for networks that utilize encryption.  Unless you have good reason
> to, it's much simpler just to use network-manager.  You can just click
> on the icon and it will try to connect you to the network.  Protected
> networks will have a little shield or lock by them, and Network Manager
> will prompt you for the password before connecting.   It's quite slick.

Holy religious icon, it's about damn time!  I've long known it's a race 
between Linux and OS X but it's always bugged me that Linux didn't have 
this kind of stuff.  And I'm a console jockey too.

..
> searches to your email.  Youch.  Do yourself a favor, install the
> blackboxsearch[4] script for greasemonkey[5] and start hiding your
> tracks.  Also, you might want to go get Lost In the Crowd[6].  Of
> course, sometimes looking at this search information is kinda funny[7].

Thanks for the links.

-Brandon


>
> [1] google for "nytimes aol search"
> [2] http://www.searchengineguide.com/laycock/006603.html
> [3] http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6112176.html
> [4] http://www.nemik.net/blackboxsearch.user.js
> [5] http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
> [6] http://www.lostinthecrowd.org/
> [5] http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4032
>
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