Wireless @ Beaumont st

[Glenn Davy]

Hi Daniel and novacastrian ubunutu_au'ers

Just wondering if anyones tried with luck to get on to wireless at beaumont ?

I've been there this morning and found that:

sudo iwconfig eth1 essid wirelss at beaumont
sudo dhclient eth1

would connect me and get me an IP address.

I also found that:
sudo iwlist eth1 scanning #find a cell
sudo iwconfig eth1 ap {enter ap address here }

would connect me at a wirelss link level, but often dhclient couldnt return me 
an ip address.  I probably need to systematically test to see when this 
is/isnt true. I also got the impression that iwconfig eth1 essid 
wireless at beaumont returned me the best strengh cell (there are several cells 
with that essid), but i havent tested and checked to verify this.

I moved around beaumont st and tried it in different cafes etc, found that 
*sometimes i needed to manually tear down and reconstruct my routing table to 
be able to see the nameserver/default gateway (10.0.13.254). 

The big catch is however.... after making the connection you can ping or 
connect to anything outside without starting a web browser and logging on to 
get let through their proxy. sounds reasonable, but I couldnt do that, I got 
caught in an infinte loop of page redirects. i.e. i'd try to browse to 
mywebsite.info, and get redirected to http://hamiltontown.com/ But because I 
wasn't logged in i'd get redirected to 
http://hamiltontown.com/WIFI/index.html which would fail and redirect me back 
to hamiltontown.com and so back to /WIFI/index.html, and so on and on - i 
found this with Firefox and Konqueror. Im guessing tis written for IE?

anyhow though i'd share the experience and find out if anyones had any luck or 
knows where to go from here? I might get IE setup with wine and give it 
another try l8r

glenn


On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 03:42:23 pm Daniel Nixon wrote:
> Hey Glenn,
>
> I've had a few thoughts that you might be able to try out for me if
> you're there tomorrow.
> First of all I probably should have disabled ipv6.
>
> I also want to try forcing iwconfig to connect to the AP's mac
> address, something like "iwconfig eth1 ap xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" probably.
>
> And then there's Morgan's suggestion to try just manually editing
> /etc/network/interfaces.
>
> Let us know how you go.
>
> On 7/8/07, Glenn Davy <glenn at tangelosoftware.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 10:34:16 am Stuart Hector wrote:
> > > Ofcourse, that's providing you guys can get it to connect with ubuntu
> > > ;)
> >
> > lol - yep indeed - If i get my way I'll be there tomorrow - will let you
> > know how i go
> >
> > > On 07/07/07, Glenn Davy <glenn at tangelosoftware.net> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 03:48:38 pm Stuart Hector wrote:
> > > > > Hi Glenn,
> > > > > The wireless network reaches roughly from the train station up to
> > > > > Tudor
> > > >
> > > > St,
> > > >
> > > > > So basically yes, you can.
> > > >
> > > > thats just fantastic - 2 or 3 times a mth i spend a day in hamilton,
> > > > train all
> > > > the classes at http://newcastleaikido.com.au/ and loiter in cafes
> > > > doing work
> > > > in between, and make a couple of pit stops at lan-tastic (i think
> > > > thats what
> > > > its called) to check work in/out and emails etc.
> > > >
> > > > i rekon all kudos to whoever made this happen
> > > >
> > > > > Stuart
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 21:49:34 +1000
> > > > >
> > > > > > From: Glenn Davy <glenn at tangelosoftware.net>
> > > > > > Subject: Re: Wireless @ Beaumont st
> > > > > > To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > > > > Message-ID: <200707062149.34629.glenn at tangelosoftware.net>
> > > > > > Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 02:25:22 pm Daniel Nixon wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi list members,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I've just been to the launch of the new free wireless broadband
> > > > > > > on Beaumont st, Hamilton[1].
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hey there Daniel - sorry -  I can't help with your prob, but can
> > > > > > you clarify... does this mean I can sit in _any_ cafe in beaumont
> > > > > > st and
> > > >
> > > > use
> > > >
> > > > > > wireless? free?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > glenn
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Some people from the Newcastle Herald took some pictures of me
> > > > > > > using my notebook in a cafe for an article that will probably
> > > > > > > be in tomorrow's paper. Hopefully the picture they choose to
> > > > > > > use contains
> > > >
> > > > a
> > > >
> > > > > > > nice view on the Ubuntu sticker on my notebook's lid. ;-)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > So everyone buy it!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On a more serious note I wasn't able to connect. :(
> > > > > > > I used airodump-ng[2] and could see an access point that was
> > > >
> > > > probably
> > > >
> > > > > > > the right one because its mac address corresponded to the mac
> > > >
> > > > address
> > > >
> > > > > > > that two station's were connecting to. The two stations had
> > > > > > > "wireless at beaumont" as their access point SSID which is what we
> > > >
> > > > want.
> > > >
> > > > > > > The problem is the access point I could see had something like
> > > > > > > <len
> > > >
> > > > =
> > > >
> > > > > > > 0> as its SSID. It's unprotected as far as WEP/WPA goes and I
> > > > > > > tried manually connecting to "wireless at beaumont" in network
> > > > > > > manager
> > > >
> > > > without
> > > >
> > > > > > > any luck (ubuntu feisty by the way).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > My suspicion is that the @ symbol in the SSID caused problems.
> > > > > > > I'm testing that at home now. Help?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > [1] http://hamiltontown.com/
> > > > > > > [2] http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airodump-ng
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > Regards
> > > > > > > Daniel Nixon <dan.nixon at gmail.com>
> > > >
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