woodsmoke
02-11-2010, 07:45 PM
This is curious.
Running the latest Adrianne on a Toshiba with the onboard 802.1` and the Wireless N and G pcmcia cards, the laptop sees a home network a Starbuck's networlk, McD''s network, etc. no problem.
However, at the college where I teach, again, it "sees" the student network and the faculty, 128 bit encryption, network, but won't connect.
I've spent several years at the college and have been the "cocklebur under the saddle" as it were for Linux compliance. The IT people and I get along fine, but the people with actual experience with Linux have somewhat moved on to other jobs. They know the word Knoppix, but may not know much about the OS.
It used to be that anyone, faculty or student, had to go through the complete Windows, or MAC setup to log in, WEP key doubled in size, had to enter addresses, you name it.
However, this last couple of years, I've been mainly using the campus computers and was not aware of any changes.
Today, the student access is just logging in through the normal web interface with no setup. No WEP key nothing.
Faculty requires entering the faculty password etc. but, again, apparently, no actual setup, even the WEP is provided automatically, but since I have not been able to actually "get" anywhere, I don't know for sure.
Knoppix Adrianne does, indeed, provide a somewhat truncated version of the old wireless setup interface, but again, I have not been able to get it to work,
Today, I brought in a triple boot of Windows and two Ubu variants.
This on a Sony Vaio, PCG 6Q1L.
All three saw the college's network and got on automatically, all I had to do was enter my normal e-mail address and password.
So, I called IT to discuss this and they put into a "work order" thing, and how long it will take for them to get back, I told them that it is a LOW priority and probably not anything they can do anything about
BUT......
I did ask if there is something "new" about web protocols in general, or specifically, that has been enabled in the last short while, maybe a year, of which i am not aware.
Possibly there is some kind of "number" that is automatically generated, if the site allows it, or something like that, that I would need to enter manually.
So. that is where things stand as of now.
If there is some thing of which I'm not aware that I could "enter" in the normal setup screens to test this then I would be glad to do so and pass the information on to the wonderful Knoppix team.
Otherwise, I will await letters of transit here in Casablanca...... :lol:
woodsmoke
Running the latest Adrianne on a Toshiba with the onboard 802.1` and the Wireless N and G pcmcia cards, the laptop sees a home network a Starbuck's networlk, McD''s network, etc. no problem.
However, at the college where I teach, again, it "sees" the student network and the faculty, 128 bit encryption, network, but won't connect.
I've spent several years at the college and have been the "cocklebur under the saddle" as it were for Linux compliance. The IT people and I get along fine, but the people with actual experience with Linux have somewhat moved on to other jobs. They know the word Knoppix, but may not know much about the OS.
It used to be that anyone, faculty or student, had to go through the complete Windows, or MAC setup to log in, WEP key doubled in size, had to enter addresses, you name it.
However, this last couple of years, I've been mainly using the campus computers and was not aware of any changes.
Today, the student access is just logging in through the normal web interface with no setup. No WEP key nothing.
Faculty requires entering the faculty password etc. but, again, apparently, no actual setup, even the WEP is provided automatically, but since I have not been able to actually "get" anywhere, I don't know for sure.
Knoppix Adrianne does, indeed, provide a somewhat truncated version of the old wireless setup interface, but again, I have not been able to get it to work,
Today, I brought in a triple boot of Windows and two Ubu variants.
This on a Sony Vaio, PCG 6Q1L.
All three saw the college's network and got on automatically, all I had to do was enter my normal e-mail address and password.
So, I called IT to discuss this and they put into a "work order" thing, and how long it will take for them to get back, I told them that it is a LOW priority and probably not anything they can do anything about
BUT......
I did ask if there is something "new" about web protocols in general, or specifically, that has been enabled in the last short while, maybe a year, of which i am not aware.
Possibly there is some kind of "number" that is automatically generated, if the site allows it, or something like that, that I would need to enter manually.
So. that is where things stand as of now.
If there is some thing of which I'm not aware that I could "enter" in the normal setup screens to test this then I would be glad to do so and pass the information on to the wonderful Knoppix team.
Otherwise, I will await letters of transit here in Casablanca...... :lol:
woodsmoke