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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Kai Hendry wrote: > My sister is now attending the University of Plymouth. However she is > having trouble connecting to the wireless from her Ubuntu Thinkpad T30. > > I don't know what's going on. She has upgraded Ubuntu at least 3 times > and perhaps the bloatware that's the Gnome network manager has decided > to fail unsurprisingly. She does say it works at work at home fine. > Perhaps I wrote in a /etc/network/interfaces. I can't remember! > > So is there any LUG member at the University that could help her resolve > the problem? My wife's a student at the university and I remember the network not being open to all: you needed to be a student/employee to be able to connect to the network. I don't remember how they checked, but I think the sysadmin did something to her (Windows) laptop; in general Plymouth Uni doesn't seem very Linux-friendly. (Having said that, when we went there for her interview a few years ago I connected my SuSE-laptop to the wired network and it worked just fine. The sysadmin later told me that this simply could not have worked.) I hope this helps. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html