[Year 12 IPM] Connecting a linux box to the eduPaSS wirelessnetwork

[Laurie Savage]

yeah, OK you got me!

But seriously folks, I thought SUSE would have had the tools to connect 
pretty effortlessly. If my memory serves me it is KDE based like 
Mandrake, so just configuring wpa_supplicant should suffice.

Moral: go Debian/Ubuntu!

Laurie

Bell, Cameron P wrote:
> Oh come on... you want a life *and* you want a command line proc - in
> the same post?
> Hmmm seems like a conflict of interest to me.  :)
>  
> Besides, I think that having any sort of life contravenes DET policy.
> 
> Cameron
> 
> Ps - Still no luck on the edupass with Suse 10.1, BUT I am getting
> closer.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Laurie Savage
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:46 AM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> Teachers'Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Connecting a linux box to the eduPaSS
> wirelessnetwork
> 
> I think I'd rather get a life than play with WINE!
> 
> Can any Linux geeks out their remember the command line procedure for 
> removing a service from init.d? We've gone to a new Broadband and 
> they've disallowed FTP and changed my SSH port to 222 :-/
> 
> Laurie
> 
> Bell, Cameron P wrote:
>> Wacko! Thanks for that laurie I'll give it a go.
>> Next on the agenda - getting Markbook to work under WINE.   :)
>> Then the transformation will be complete! <INSERT  evil laugh>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
>> On Behalf Of sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:43 AM
>> To: ipm at edulists.com.au
>> Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Connecting a linux box to the eduPaSS wirless
>> network
>>
>> Success at last - thanks to Donna Benjamin and our techician Ian
> Green.
>> Here are the instructions.
>>
>> Laurie
>>
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>> Laurie Savage
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