Wireless @ Beaumont st

[Stuart Hector]

Hi Glenn,
The wireless network reaches roughly from the train station up to Tudor St,
So basically yes, you can.

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>
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> 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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