[ubuntu-in] BSNL Broadband conncetion in ubuntu 9.10

[Sambit Bikas Pal]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 17:31, suranjan jii <suranjan.suranjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> So i want to download updates in cybercafe who has BSNL modem and
> connection. They are telling me that there wifi is on and i should do
> it via wifi. IP and DNS server no. are there's. I can't use username
> and password. B/c they will not provide.
>
> I can see that in XP OS easily they are just going in control panel
> and puting IP and DNS no. there and it is working fine.
>
> Is there any way to do this ?

Hi Suranjan,
When you are in that cybercafe, can you see their wifi connection on
the list of wifi networks (You can get this list by left-clicking on
the network manager icon in the upper panel) ?
If you can see the name in the list, then your job is half done.
Try clicking on that, to check if you get an ip address automatically via dhcp.
If not, You have to right click on the network manager icon --> Edit
connections --> Wireless Networks --> Add
Now you can manually put in the info like SSID, IP address, gateway, dns etc.

However in case you can't see the name of the wifi network in the list
of networks, then it might be that you would have to install the
drivers for your wlan card.

Please check this and tell.

-- 
Sambit Bikas Pal
Dept of Physics,
Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata,

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