Wireless @ Beaumont st

[Glenn Davy]

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>
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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>