Hi all, I haven't used built-in wireless on Linux in years but come Thursday I'll likely have to spend 12 or more hours waiting around in a hospital so I'm making an attempt to get it working.
Can someone point me at instructions oriented toward sitting down in a place like Starbucks on a public network and gaining basic connectivity? Everything I'm finding is based on running a properly secure network which I suspect isn't what one uses in a public place. Am I correct in this? The hardware is Atheros: slinky ~ # lspci | grep Atheros 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) slinky ~ # so I'm building into my kernel anything that looks reasonably likely to be used. I didn't find anything for this specific chip though. What sort of apps are available to discover a public network ESSID? Something GUI based would be appreciated if it's in portage. Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers, Mark
