Rob Grant wrote:
Visitors to UEA need to get their network cards registered in order to access our network. As a more convenient alternative, the technical support manager here suggested that our school buy two or three usb wireless cards which can be pre-registered and loaned to visitors.
Obviously, I'd like to make sure that whatever we get will have a good chance of working for any visitors who arrive with Linux laptops. Hence, any ideas on either of these would be appreciated.
i) suggestions for a usb wireless card that should plug and play with Linux, Macs and Windows. Physical robustness probably a help too.
ii) or is this whole idea a bad one?
Apologies if this 'which wireless card?' thing has been rather done to death here recently. I can't recall anything specifically usb and mac/win interoperable though.
Hi Rob, I'm not sure that you are aware of this, but the first time you connect to the UEA wifi network it asks you to register. I did this the other day with my laptop running ubuntu and it was registered and working straight away (although the registration page says it can take 20mins). I'm not sure how this works for 'guests' at UEA but there used to be a similar system for visitors wanting to use the UEA ethernet network connections. Alternatively, parts of UEA are covered by the Norwich-wide wifi which is free to use, and there are also numerous departmental wifi networks too that are accessible.
Simon