Re: [PLUG] PLUG Digest, Vol 90, Issue 76

2012-03-31 Thread Mike Connors
> > > At the PLUG clinic last week the Sony Vaio laptop on the wireless > interface, wlan0, received an IP address, had the Free Geek server provide > content in /etc/resolv.conf, but would not load the Free Geek web page to > accept their terms and conditions and gain access to the 'Net. > > T

[PLUG] freewrl .deb dependency error

2012-03-31 Thread Richard C. Steffens
Once in awhile I have some time to experiment. Today I'm trying to install freewrl on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine. I have a .deb file (freewrl_1.22.101_i386) which I got from: http://download.tuxfamily.org/myosotis/freewrl/package/lenny/i386/ When I try to install it I get an error message: Error:

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Russell Senior wrote: > Just a heads-up, NoCatAuth (which I believe FreeGeek is using) typically > won't let you use your own nameservers because all your traffic (with > specific exceptions) is blocked until you accept the conditions. In those > cases, the network is expecti

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Neal wrote: > The point of my question was to verify that a default gateway was set > properly on the WLAN. That is, the default WLAN gateway was set to a valid > address on the WLAN subnet. If it's not you won't be able to access any IP > (including DNS) that's not on the WLA

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-03-31 Thread Russell Senior
> "Rich" == Rich Shepard writes: Rich>At the PLUG clinic last week the Sony Vaio laptop on the Rich> wireless interface, wlan0, received an IP address, had the Free Rich> Geek server provide content in /etc/resolv.conf, but would not Rich> load the Free Geek web page to accept their terms

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, eduncli...@gmail.com wrote: > Are you running NoScript? Nope. Have no idea what that is. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-03-31 Thread Neal
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Neal wrote: > >> I don't currently know enough about linux networking to solve it for >> you, but what are the default gateway and subnet mask? > > NealS, > >   The gateway and netmask are set by the DHCP server when it as

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-03-31 Thread eduncliffe
Are you running NoScript? I know that at PCC and MHCC, where some additional login information is needed, that I have to temporarily disable NoScript to access the final login page. I have to do the same thing at Red and Black too. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- Fr

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Neal wrote: > I don't currently know enough about linux networking to solve it for > you, but what are the default gateway and subnet mask? NealS, The gateway and netmask are set by the DHCP server when it assigns an IP address to the host. I don't recall what they were.

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-03-31 Thread Neal
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >   This morning I spent about an hour at a local coffee shop with the same > results: wlan0 was UP and RUNNING with the IP address of 10.5.70.104 and I don't currently know enough about linux networking to solve it for you, but what are the de

[PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
At the PLUG clinic last week the Sony Vaio laptop on the wireless interface, wlan0, received an IP address, had the Free Geek server provide content in /etc/resolv.conf, but would not load the Free Geek web page to accept their terms and conditions and gain access to the 'Net. This morning I