Morning All, I've got the perfect solution for unsecured wireless networks! I simply browse into the various system startup folders and drop a small PowerPoint presentation into it. Basically it's a quick presentation mentioning that, while working on another network, I determined that their network was insecure. I then go on to give my contact info with a suggestion that they contact me or their IT support staff for assistance in securing their network. Cheers, Dave Watkins Calgary, Alberta, Canada dave@davewatkins.net www.davewatkins.net Voice: 403-701-5746 Fax: 403-266-0626 Hardware/Software Sales, Service & Support Electronics Restoration Specialists -----Original Message----- From: Adam Leach [mailto:suse@ntlworld.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:35 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Wireless networking Quoting Michael Satterwhite :

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Does anyone here have wireless networking working under SuSE 9.0 using a Linksys WPC11 / BEFW11? If so, would you mind giving me a little help off-list?

Secondary question: If I can't get it working under Linksys, I'd consider changing wireless router and/or card. Can anyone recommend one that definitely works?

I can definately recommend the Netgear WG311 as it happily works with SuSE 9.0 as both a Software Access Point and a Wireless client connecting to another machine. Software also works very nicely with Windows. If you need to know more I'll check the driver it uses when I get home. The only problem I have is that around where I live there are a number of unsecured wireless networks (ie no Encryption or MAC Address security), and occasionally it will change to a different network. I think that is due to Kwifimanager trying to stick to the network with the strongest signal. Regards Adam -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

Would that be spam or hacking? Except in the case of Mickey$oft not much hacking is needed. CWSIV On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:08:45 -0700 Abacus Infomail writes:

Morning All,

I've got the perfect solution for unsecured wireless networks!

I simply browse into the various system startup folders and drop a small PowerPoint presentation into it. Basically it's a quick presentation mentioning that, while working on another network, I determined that their network was insecure. I then go on to give my contact info with a suggestion that they contact me or their IT support staff for assistance in securing their network.

Cheers,

Dave Watkins Calgary, Alberta, Canada

dave@davewatkins.net www.davewatkins.net Voice: 403-701-5746 Fax: 403-266-0626

Hardware/Software Sales, Service & Support Electronics Restoration Specialists

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Quoting Joe Polk :

I would assume you're not running WEP? Have you managed to get this working? I've had problems, so I'm curious. <sigh>

I've never tried WEP as I use MAC Address security. Any MAC Address that the router doesn't know about gets refused access. Makes life easier and you haven't got the overhead of WEP. Adam

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Does anyone here have wireless networking working under SuSE 9.0 using a Linksys WPC11 / BEFW11? If so, would you mind giving me a little help off-list?

Secondary question: If I can't get it working under Linksys, I'd consider changing wireless router and/or card. Can anyone recommend one that definitely works?

I can definately recommend the Netgear WG311 as it happily works with SuSE 9.0 as both a Software Access Point and a Wireless client connecting to another machine. Software also works very nicely with Windows. If you need to know more I'll check the driver it uses when I get home.

The only problem I have is that around where I live there are a number of unsecured wireless networks (ie no Encryption or MAC Address security), and occasionally it will change to a different network. I think that is due to Kwifimanager trying to stick to the network with the strongest signal.

Regards

Adam

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