On Thursday, 9. August 2007, G T Smith wrote:

> It is relatively straightforward to change IP related settings on an
> extant wired device, but a bit more problematic with secure wireless
> connections (in any environment with any OS BTW).

Our School wifi network is open (it has to be accessible to the students, so 
it's not encrpyted and has no password - but the counterpart is you only have 
Internet access. Local network is accessible only from wired computers with 
personnal accounts

> A simple trick would be to write a small script which ....
>
> a) ifdown current WiFi connection...
> b) copies appropriate WiFi config to the ifcfg file
> c) ifup WiFi connection

Thanks, I'll look at that and test it as soon as I'm back to work.

Thierry

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