[HLUG] Simpson hall, Burghill location map and directions

Mark Broadbent mgjbroadbent at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 19 16:51:19 UTC 2008


2008/11/19  <grhmc at lavabit.com>:
> 2 things to add to Julian's info:
> We can park behind the hall but go in at the front door if the Scottish
> dancing is in progress. We meet upstairs.
>
> I visited the hall this morning to try getting the wifi connection with
> Linux, running an Ubuntu live system. I failed, probably because of a
> peculiar feature of the router set-up. It's necessary to change from
> 'open' to 'shared' in a dialogue box if using XP. If you use Vista you
> would not readily find this choice and would be unable to connect until
> you did find it. With the Ubuntu Network Settings tool I had no way of
> choosing between 'open' and 'shared'.
>
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

If you use network manager then you should have the option to change
the authentication between open and shared.

Thanks
Mark



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