On Wednesday 16 July 2003 23:54, Jason Friedman wrote: > Hi all, > > I bought a wifi card to take travelling and wanted to test it before I > leave. Does anyone know of any public wifi access points in Israel? >
Some of the "Coffee Bean" places, and some of the "Arcafe" places. However, when connecting to a public AP from Linux, don't forget to bring your war-driving toolkit: - network stumbling tool - WiFi sniffer (kismet will do) - Internet Explorer on WINE In Arcafe, for example, you will receive a Windows CD with a special installation program. I didn't install it (don't have Win), but I can only assume it configures your WiFi card - this can be done under by getting the SSID using a network stumbler and getting the valid IP range using a sniffer (unless you're lucky and a DHCP is available. I wasn't that lucky). Internet Explorer needs to be used on public hotspots where authentication is web based (haven't seen those in Israel, but it's the common hotspot authentication mechanism abroad). Many of those authentication gateways simply "hijack" your browser to the authentication page. Konquerrer and mozilla seem to be less "hijackable" than IE, and therefore you may need IE for some hotspots. And of course, if you already have these tools installed, you might want to broaden the definition of "public WiFi AP"... -- - Aviram ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
