<div><div>Hi Glenn, The wireless network reaches roughly from the train station up to Tudor St, So basically yes, you can. Stuart  </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 21:49:34 +1000 From: Glenn Davy <<a href="mailto:glenn@tangelosoftware.net">glenn@tangelosoftware.net</a>> Subject: Re: Wireless @ Beaumont st To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:200707062149.34629.glenn@tangelosoftware.net">200707062149.34629.glenn@tangelosoftware.net</a>> 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@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@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] <a href="http://hamiltontown.com/">http://hamiltontown.com/</a> > [2] <a href="http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airodump-ng">http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airodump-ng </a> > > > -- > Regards > Daniel Nixon <<a href="mailto:dan.nixon@gmail.com">dan.nixon@gmail.com</a>> </blockquote></div>