[opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot

2007-01-03 Thread Hans du Plooy
This is slightly OT, but relevant nevertheless. I stopped by a Starbucks in London today and wanted to use the internet. Network manager sees the "default" network, but can't connect. When I look in my logs I see DHCP request getting sent, but no reply. How do these things work? Thanks Hans -

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot

2007-01-03 Thread Martin Mielke
http://wlassistant.sourceforge.net/ and everything worked just fine. HTH, Martin - Original Message From: Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 5:46:25 PM Subject: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot This is slightly OT, but relevant never

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot

2007-01-03 Thread Robert Lewis
me know! > > Instead, I installed http://wlassistant.sourceforge.net/ and everything > worked just fine. > > > HTH, > Martin > > - Original Message > From: Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: opensuse@opensuse.org > Sent: Wednesday, January 3,

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot

2007-01-03 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 09:16 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote: > Martin Mielke wrote: > > Hi there! > > > > I experienced some not-no-nice behaviour when using the default > application on SuSE 10.2 called kwifimanager ... it shows the > different networks but I still haven't managed to use it for > connec

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot

2007-01-03 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 08:59, Martin Mielke wrote: > Hi there! > > I experienced some not-no-nice behaviour when using the default application > on SuSE 10.2 called kwifimanager ... it shows the different networks but I > still haven't managed to use it for connecting... -- if you did, please

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot

2007-01-03 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 08:59, Martin Mielke wrote: > Hi there! > > I experienced some not-no-nice behaviour when using the default application > on SuSE 10.2 called kwifimanager ... it shows the different networks but I > still haven't managed to use it for connecting... -- if you did, please

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot

2007-01-03 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-03-07 22:26]: > Did a ./configure, make, su, make install and voila! one step in error! ./configure, make, su, checkinstall remember that you are using an rpm based system, make install does not allow for un-installing and does not update your rpm database.

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot

2007-01-03 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 19:36, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-03-07 22:26]: > > Did a ./configure, make, su, make install and voila! > > one step in error! > ./configure, make, su, checkinstall Oh, very cool! I never used that before. > > remember that you ar