Wireless @ Beaumont st

[Glenn Davy]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 02:25:22 pm Daniel Nixon wrote:
> Hi list members,
>
> I've just been to the launch of the new free wireless broadband on
> Beaumont st, Hamilton[1].

Hey there Daniel - sorry -  I can't help with your prob, but can you 
clarify... does this mean I can sit in _any_ cafe in beaumont st and use 
wireless? free?


glenn

>
> Some people from the Newcastle Herald took some pictures of me using
> my notebook in a cafe for an article that will probably be in
> tomorrow's paper. Hopefully the picture they choose to use contains a
> nice view on the Ubuntu sticker on my notebook's lid. ;-)
>
> So everyone buy it!
>
> On a more serious note I wasn't able to connect. :(
> I used airodump-ng[2] and could see an access point that was probably
> the right one because its mac address corresponded to the mac address
> that two station's were connecting to. The two stations had
> "wireless at beaumont" as their access point SSID which is what we want.
>
> The problem is the access point I could see had something like <len =
> 0> as its SSID. It's unprotected as far as WEP/WPA goes and I tried
> manually connecting to "wireless at beaumont" in network manager without
> any luck (ubuntu feisty by the way).
>
> My suspicion is that the @ symbol in the SSID caused problems. I'm
> testing that at home now. Help?
>
>
> [1] http://hamiltontown.com/
> [2] http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airodump-ng
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Daniel Nixon <dan.nixon at gmail.com>