Jon, The school is in NYC, the land of hidden SSIDs. I will check out this page and try to make it work in the school.
And, congrats to your grandma. Thanks. Gerald On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettle...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > This wouldn't happen to be in NYC, would it? I remember reading a long > time > > ago that the schools there have a policy that SSIDs can't be broadcast. > You > > might deter my Grandma with that, but it's almost pointless as a security > > measure. > > > > > http://olpcnyc.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/connecting-to-hidden-wifi-networks/ > > > > That workaround is likely deprecated now, though. > > > > If this is a newer image, one based on F11 then you should be able to > use nmcli to connect. Take a look at this page. > > http://blog.nixpanic.net/2011/01/connect-automatically-and-immediately.html > > Hope that helps. My grandma would still hack it in 2 seconds though :-) > > Jon >
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