Not sure how many of you will have heard of this, I'm not sure quite how
far this thing has travelled but this Free Public Wi-Fi virus is
getting on my nerves...
Read a bit about it here;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/business/article3554838.ece
I was wondering if we could have
Is there a way of establishing (and keeping)
a WiFi connection with NetworkManager
before logging in?
I've read postings saying it is possible,
and others saying it is not.
If it is possible,
what are the steps one must take to implement this?
(I'm running Fedora-10 with KDE.)
--
Timothy
Hi Jochen,
What stick are you using?
i.e. Make and model number?
You can find that out with lsusb.
Kind regards, Nicholas Herriot.
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 14:38:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com
Subject: nm-tool doesn't show my mobile broadband card
To:
Hi, Nicholas,
see my original mail:
Bus 004 Device 005: ID 0af0:6971 Option
Herriot, Nicholas, VF UK - Technology (TS) wrote:
Hi Jochen,
What stick are you using?
i.e. Make and model number?
You can find that out with lsusb.
Kind regards, Nicholas Herriot.
Date: Fri, 8
Never mind, problem was me: I had to load the option driver:
/sbin/lsmod option
Now everything works fine.
Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
Hi,
I have a so-called web'n'walk stick. I managed to have it reported not as
a USB drive, but as a modem by using usb_modeswitch:
[...@mcjwi ~]$
I am surprised that /sbin/lsmod option solved your issue.
1. That is not even a valid command.
2. The driver should auto load on most modem distros.
If for some reason you really did have to manually load the driver. You
would probably want to use modprobe option so that the usbserial driver
I do not know if I would call that a virus, but maybe I misread the article
so please correct me if I am wrong. Also, your solution probably would be
useful until someone started running the scam with free Public Wi-Fi. and
now your even worse off because you are no longer worried to log on since
I found out about this list through the forum mentioned in the following
thread:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2008-September/msg00256.html
and appear to have the same problem. The person appealed to you guys and
seemed to get a fix: I looked through the messages, but was
