Manchesterwireless (was Re: Why Philly...)

[Bill Freeman]

Christopher Schmidt writes:
 > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:46:54PM -0400, Travis Roy wrote:
 > > Manchester has wireless for most of downtown (www.manchesterwireless.org)
 > 
 > I've never been able to get this to work. I've tried with both my Apple 
 > Powerbook (12" G4), Sony Vaio with D-link card, nor have my coworkers 
 > with wireless been able to get it. I live less than two blocks from 
 > Elliot (GPS coords: 42.9813,  -71.4369) and have tried on Valley, in the 
 > Millyards, and on... Granite? Coming straight up towards elliot, in any 
 > case.
 > 
 > I enter the SSID as "mancesterwireless.org", as per the directions:
 > 
 > [[[
 >  To logon set your SSID to "manchesterwireless.org" and scan for us.
 > ]]]
 > 
 > Has anyone else successfully accessed this network?

	No.  I've certainly been able to hear their packets with
Kismet, but never managed to connect.  I wonder if there's some sort
of WiFi card compatibility problem.  I was using (*) one of the cards
that Ben Scott brought to a GNHLUG meeting years ago.  It's marked
"ENTRASYS NETWORKS" and "RoamAbout" and is apparently a Prism based
card made by Cabletron.

[ * Of course Ben said that he got those cards by "dumpster diving",
so there may, indeed, be something wrong with them.  Since my laptop
has flaked, I haven't been inspired to get a new card.]

							Bill