Wireless laptop public net basic user's setup?
A notebook was given to us by our school---a gateway 450ROG. I have
successfully installed Knoppix 3.4, and finally 3.7. Then I compiled a
new 2.6.20 kernel, and have also compiled a driver set for the Intel
wireless onboard adaptor.
A local cafe has advertized a wireless DSL service, which is working
with Windoze, but that is unacceptable to me---I do my work with
GNU/Linux. I have tried to read the Linux Wireless HOWTO, and also
have looked at some other HOWTOs, but I don't get it yet. I understand
how to basically set up a wired connection. This arcane system is so
far elluding me.
Knoppix comes with a nice "wavelan" setup tool. I believe the access
point has been identified by my linux system: iwconfig gets a
meaningful number for the access point. However, I think I am not
getting the DNS. I am lost from here.
Can someone point me to a cogent description of even what is involved
in these public wireless systems?
Thank you very much,
Alan Davis
Kagman High School
Saipan, N. Mariana Islands
aedavis@eccomm.com
--
A non-free program systematically denies the users the freedom to
cooperate; it is the basis of an antisocial scheme to dominate
people. --Richard M. Stallman
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