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wireless internet



On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:31:11PM -0400, dan moylan wrote:
> 
> currently i'm visitin my sister in issaquah, wa, in a
> retirement community, with wireless access essid bwood.
> 
> my sister's computer shows good wireless signal strenghth.
> on mine, iwlist shows no scan results, and of course i'm
> unable to connect.

Your sister's ESSID is not being broadcast. Get it from her
computer, then apply it by hand.

In situations where you don't have access to such an assistant,
a wireless sniffer can help.

-dsr-


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