Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:51:28 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 802.11b access in Singapore Changi airport (was: cool) Message-ID: <20001107145128.D5188@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3A070E3B.4CAEFACD@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:02:03PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006140050210.58746-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20000615084805.E809@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20001106095852.A3648@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <3A070E3B.4CAEFACD@elischer.org>
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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
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