As I read it, at the remote location you will be using calne...@berkeley.edu as your ID (instead of just calnetid), and you will need a note of your AirBears2 key before you travel. You will not be able to look it up without net access 8-)
The service SSID will not be AirBears2, of course. It is going to be very useful for some people. Graham On 11/4/14 10:16 AM, John McChesney-Young wrote: > A message went out last night from Larry Conrad to all staff and > faculty about CalVisitor and eduroam. A lot of our faculty travel > frequently, so I sent out a note encouraging them to set themselves up > with AirBears2 if they haven't already and I included a couple of > links I thought might be helpful. Since our department manager thought > it worth passing along to the other departments she manages I thought > I'd share it here too in case any of you might find it useful as a > basis for something to send out to people you support. Feel free to > edit, remix, etc. If any of you have experience with eduroam > elsewhere already and have any tips or caveats, please let us know! > > John > > *** > > A little while ago you will have gotten a message from Larry Conrad > about new WiFi options, but since many of you travel for research and > conferences I wanted to underscore the second, eduroam. This will > allow those of you who've set up an AirBears2 key to log onto wireless > networks at many other institutions. > > I know some of you have already switched from AirBears to AirBears2, > but not all of you have. You may find this makes it worth the few > minutes required. > > See: > > https://www.eduroam.us/eduroam_us_institutions > > for a map and list of US institutions that accept eduroam (UC Berkeley > isn't listed yet); see: > > http://monitor.eduroam.org/eduroam_map.php?type=all > > for a map of non-US institutions. You can also see them as a (very > long) list by clicking on "text" after "List of service locations" at > the top. (Hint: It's probably easiest to use your browser's search > function - Control-F or Command-F - to check for an institution of > interest instead of scrolling to look for it.) > > To set up an AirBears2 key, see: > > https://kb.berkeley.edu/page.php?id=30571 > > The great practical advantage of using AirBears2 here on campus over > ordinary AirBears is that you don't need to enter your username and > password nearly as often; ideally, just once. > > *** > -- Graham Patterson, Systems Administrator Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley 510-643-2222 "...past the iguana, the tyrannosaurus, the mastodon, the mathematical puzzles, and the meteorite..." - directions to my office. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past.
