[Technical] Thanks for all the replies Ienovo R61 and home wireless connections

Wed Aug 6 11:26:15 EST 2008

Thanks to all who took time out to answer.  It is not a VISTA issue, since all our laptops were reimaged to XP. I forced the connection with a static alternative IP address and got going for about 5 minutes, then it lost contact. I am going to update the drivers and retest. My router was suplied by Virgin Home broadband, and for those who know that internet/telephony arrangement know that it is not well supported. 

Thanks again

Wayne

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From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Kevin Feely
Sent: Tue 5/08/2008 10:15 PM
To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
Subject: [Technical] Re: Ienovo R61 and home wireless connections

Hi wayne,
It, I think, is not the ibm but vista. to enable wireless is a bit (?)
convoluted in vista cf xp especially if it is secured.
Also find out the admin password and logon as the administrator, and
give your user admin level security, ( i get really annoyed when i dont
have access to all areas of my own notebook - some locked sections may
need a bit of work to free up) then apply read/write access to the whole
of c drive for all users. Also i would change the admin password to suit
you.
VISTA applies a security approach that the highest level of security
takes precedence. So if you allow access to the part of the drive, vista
will overide this as by default it has restrictions at the top of the
drive(s)
regards
kev

Wayne Hewett wrote:
>
> Greetings all
>
> My wife brought home her new R61. We've had immediate issues
> connecting to our home wireless router. Something which did not occur
> with her old R52. Has anyone else had problems?
>
> Wayne Hewett
>
>
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> Moodle chat (as secure chat with control of session times etc)
> Moodle wiki - for joint development of pages in a wiki website (or other
> online free wiki sites
> Moodle forum - exchange of documents (single forum can restrict
> communication within a class or any named group of students).
>  --- Attached images or multimedia are immediately visible (i.e. no
> need to
> open to view)
>
> Etc
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> Our Yr5 and Yr6 classes make good use of the collaborative features
> of MS OneNote in their lessons. We have a relationship with a nearby
> boys' school which presumably also makes good use of OneNote. One of
> our Yr5 teachers has asked if it is possible to set up real-time
> shared sessions between us and them, but since we are on different
> and unconnected networks, my boss (the network manager) and I can't
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> Can anyone suggest a method to set up real-time shared collaboration
> (not necessarily OneNote) sessions over unconnected networks? I'm
> thinking maybe wiki or Moodle, but I have little knowledge of such
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> Jim
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