On Tue, January 6, 2009 6:21 pm, Mike Miller wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Jim Crumley wrote: >> On Sun, January 4, 2009 6:48 pm, Mike Miller wrote: >> >>> To the list -- What are your experiences with GNU/Linux laptops in >>> hotels, airports and coffee shops? >> >> Once you get wireless working with your own APs, you should be set. >> >> Every hotel, airport, and meeting AP that I have ever used just required >> you to login by browser, and that always worked with whatever browser I >> had on Linux. Just try to load any outside web page, and you are >> redirected to a login page. Once you are logged in surf, the web, ssh, >> or do whatever else you please. > > Excellent. I just keep it set for DHCP, I assume. Yes, that's what I do. There are several packages available though, that can help you do fancier things. Some of them can detect what network you are on and assign a "static" IP accordingly, and fall back to DHCP if an unknown network is detected. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |