From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Nov 9 18: 6: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (earth.elinux.com.sg [203.120.99.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589C137B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:05:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eA76vhF05294; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:57:43 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:51:28 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Julian Elischer Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 802.11b access in Singapore Changi airport (was: cool) Message-ID: <20001107145128.D5188@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20000615084805.E809@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20001106095852.A3648@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <3A070E3B.4CAEFACD@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3A070E3B.4CAEFACD@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:02:03PM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 6 November 2000 at 12:02:03 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Thursday, 15 June 2000 at 8:48:05 -0700, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 14 June 2000 at 1:00:27 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >>>> >>>> So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport, >>>> the internet center in the transit area will loan you for FREE, >>>> a wavelan PC-CARD. >> >> OK, I'm now in Changi myself, and I appear to be connected the way it >> was intended. You need to set the SSID to "ANY", no encryption, >> managed mode. The people I spoke to didn't know any of this, but we >> barely got by. Once you have that, you get: >> >> [snip] >> >> They appear to have blocked tracroute: ... but name services and >> ping work, and so does ssh. > > last time I was there (2 weeeks ago) terminal 2 internet center was > moving so I had to use terminal 1.. They didn't moved, they closed down. But that didn't affect the coverage in Terminal 2. > But DHCP seemed to work for me this time, (but not the first time...)... > > the script I used was: > #!/bin/sh > kldload if_wi > sleep 15 > wicontrol -i wi0 -p 1 > sleep 1 > /sbin/dhclient > # if dhcp fails, use the following by hand.... > #ifconfig wi0 up 192.100.100.2 > #sleep 1 > #route add default 192.100.100.1 > > I'll play more with it on jan 27 when I go through in the other > direction again.... :-) OK, that's what I suspected, that this "ANY" keyword was some kind of kludge necessary for Microsoft systems. The first time round, I had encryption set (don't ask), and it worked as soon as I turned encryption off (by which time I had set the SSID to ANY). I'll try again on Saturday when I go through in the other direction again :-) Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message