Jon,<div><br></div><div>The school is in NYC, the land of hidden SSIDs.</div><div>I will check out this page and try to make it work in the school.</div><div><br></div><div>And, congrats to your grandma.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Thanks.<br>Gerald<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Jon Nettleton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon.nettleton@gmail.com">jon.nettleton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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> This wouldn't happen to be in NYC, would it? I remember reading a long time<br>
> ago that the schools there have a policy that SSIDs can't be broadcast. You<br>
> might deter my Grandma with that, but it's almost pointless as a security<br>
> measure.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://olpcnyc.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/connecting-to-hidden-wifi-networks/" target="_blank">http://olpcnyc.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/connecting-to-hidden-wifi-networks/</a><br>
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> That workaround is likely deprecated now, though.<br>
><br>
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</div>If this is a newer image, one based on F11 then you should be able to<br>
use nmcli to connect. Take a look at this page.<br>
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<a href="http://blog.nixpanic.net/2011/01/connect-automatically-and-immediately.html" target="_blank">http://blog.nixpanic.net/2011/01/connect-automatically-and-immediately.html</a><br>
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Hope that helps. My grandma would still hack it in 2 seconds though :-)<br>
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Jon<br>
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