[ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey

[London School of Puppetry]

On 10/11/2007, Alec Wright <alecjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 17:24 +0000, Mac wrote:
> > Friends >>> Following the surprisingly few responses to some recent
> > questions about wifi, I'm beginning to wonder how many of us are
> > actually using Ubuntu wirelessly on laptops.
> >
> > So here's a quick poll:
> >
> > Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi?
> >
> > And, if you do, do you use
> >
> > no encryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2
> >
> > with ESSID broadcast / hidden?
> >
> >
> > Mac
> ESSID broadcast.
> I used to have no security until 10 minutes ago, when I enabled either
> WPA or WPA2 (not sure which), with 128 bit passphrase. My lappy with
> intel 3945abg wireless connects fine, as does my brother's desktop with
> an rt61. Both of the above run gutsy. I haven't tested my desktop with
> bcm4306 yet. Since there's noone in the house who has any sort of idea
> about windows wireless at all, my parents' XP MCE 2005 with bcm4311
> isn't connecting. If you use the windows utility, it says the passphrase
> isn't the right length (it says it'll only accept 5 or 13 characters and
> mine's 12) and if you use the belkin utility, it cant decide whether ive
> got security enabled or not.
> --
> Alec Wright <alecjw at gmail.com>
>
> Hi there I am using Ubuntu wirelessly on my lap top- but I don't know the
> answer to your list of techy questions, but I can ask a friend. What is the
> survey for?



Caroline

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