Alex, This is not the same problem I had but does illustrate the fact that you have to keep going deeper into the IT department to eventually find the right person that has the right answer. Plus, you have to know yourself what the right answer is before you can find the right person. This is why it took me a year to finally access for my braillenote.
Cindy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Parks Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:09 PM To: Braillenote List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Braillenote] college network Sorry to jump in here, but the UMaine college system claims to require any machine on their network to have Norton. However, I was visiting my sister one day and took the settings off her laptop, manually entered them into my BN, and was online with no problem. I am not sure what security they have, but if all you need is a good IP, DNS, default gateway, and subnet mask then I have to wonder... The only problem is that if one of these four is not recognized, you are out of luck. Have a great day, Alex > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "slery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Braillenote List" <[email protected] >Date sent: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:56:11 -0500 >Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Braillenote] college network >Don, >How recent is your experience? >Talk among students within the last year is that a lot of universities are >upping the security and have gone the route of requiring students to install >software in order to be able to use their network unless you are in a dorm. >I'm not trying to be facetious, I genuinely want to know about your >experiences because this could be brought up to universities as an example >of what other universities have done that does not exclude blind people >using adaptive technology. It wouldn't be an immediate fix but the next >time they are upgrading things they might take it into consideration. >Cindy >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of don bishop >Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:56 PM >To: braillenote >Subject: Re[2]: [Braillenote] college network >I can only speak for the college networks I've personally >experienced. >It's easy to connect to them using the braillenote. Just do a >scan for network and probably accept all the default settings along >with giving the configuration a unique name. >Next, once you're connected, you have to open your browser and go >to a page of your choosing. >Your request will be intercepted by a page from the network which >asks you to sign on to the network using your user name and >password. These should be provided to you by the appropriate >person at your college. >In other words, you can connect to the network, but you cannot do >anything with that connection until you log in properly. >There may be other networks which operate in a different way, but I >can only speak for those >with which I have experience. >Since connecting wirelessly is now such a popular connection type, >I suspect most networks now operate pretty much in this way. >So, get your username and password from the appropriate people at >your college and give it a try. >Don >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
