Wifi @ Nashua Library?

[Marc Nozell (marc@nozell.com)]

I was at the library tonight and had no problem connecting.  Even
rebooted just to make sure it wasn't a fluke.

The only thing different was last time my hp2133 was restored from
hibernating and tonight it was from a cold boot.  Not that it has
problems restoring from hibernation and connecting to our home wifi
networks.    Strange.

FYI the Nashua library has free access to a number of 'for-pay'
databases, like Ancestry.com (genealogy, including scanned/indexed
census records) and newsbank.com (historical scanned/indexed US
newspapers).  Sadly access is tied to their locked down WinPCs -- just
being on the library network is not enough.    Other databases can be
used from home if you log in with your library ID.

-marc

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Jim Kuzdrall<gnhlug at intrel.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 15:49, Marc Nozell (marc at nozell.com) wrote:
>> The Nashua Public Library has free wifi, but I've not been able to
>> connect, but other Windows users nearby have.  It is an unsecured
>> network so it isn't a key or passphrase problem.
>> I see in the logs that dhclient isn't getting a lease:
>>
>> I'm using Ubuntu/Jaunty.  Anyone successful?
>
>    I log on there successfully - most of the time.  Their server gets
> overloaded easily.
>
>    I am running OpenSuSE 10.3.  My firewall setting was keeping me out,
> apparently.  I could log in with the firewall down.
>
>    When the firewall was changed to allow all of its listed services
> (DHCP, DNS, HTTP, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, IPP, NFS, NIS, SSH), I got on.
> Not being very patient, I never went back to see which of them had to
> be on.
>
>    (They cut you off without warning if your download reaches 1 GB.)
>
> Jim Kuzdrall
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