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Or you could just use Wifi-Radar. Many thanks to Kevin Otte for this! http://wifi-radar.systemimager.org/ D- Tim Cline wrote: 477E790F.5070500 AT email.unc.edu" type="cite">My acknowledgement to Uncle Dave Moffat and Alan Hoyle for following info: To get onto UNC-1: Register MAC address. Then su - cd /etc/init.d ./NetworkManager stop ./network stop iwconfig eth0 essid "UNC-1" key thehexkey [Use the UNC-1 key where I wrote "thehexkey"] /sbin/dhclient -1 eth0 [Dave's notes indicate that "This sequence removes all the hot-spots from the Neighborhood view, but UNC-1 shows up on the Home view. When you hover over it, or click on it, it will ask you to enter the key again. Be sure to specify hex." For me, I just ran "iwconfig" until the ESSID changed from "" to "UNC-1". Note: the hex key is input without the leading zeros; i.e., not "010203" but just "123...". Also, the installed browser works, you don't have to install Opera. TC] I have not determined how to restore the original Neighborhood view, except to reboot. David [Note from alan: I haven't tried it, but I suspect the following might work: go back into the terminal $ su - # killall dhclient # /etc/init.d/network start # /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start ] Regards, Tim Cline Douglas A. Whitfield wrote: |
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