[Nottingham] Wireless connection at University of Nottingham

[David Aldred]

Works fine with my Blackberry, and with colleagues' iphones!   I can't
offhand think of anyone I know who uses Android at work at UoN; I'll check
tomorrow.

David Aldred


On 1 February 2011 17:32, Cat Clarkson <envengcat at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, and vaguely on topic, is there any way to make UoN WiFi
> work with smartphones?  I think there must be some issue with proxy stuff
> that I don't understand.
>
> HTC Hero running 2.1 [rooted if that helps]
>
> Cheers
> Cat
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Mat Booth <mbooth at fedoraproject.org>wrote:
>
>> On 1 February 2011 10:51, Aritra Dalal <aritra.dalal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hey there,
>> >
>> >
>> > I run Ubuntu x64 10.10 on a BCM4312 b/g card.
>> >
>>
>> Ugh, unfortunately it's probably more to do with that Broadcom adaptor
>> rather than Ubuntu itself.
>>
>> Sadly Broadcom adaptors are really quite flakey because you have to
>> use the proprietary driver, which may or may not require a non-zero
>> amount of imaginative hackery to get working. This page might help
>> you: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx
>>
>> However, Broadcom recently released a whole chunk of code so the
>> situation is likely to improve in the future but that code is still in
>> the staging tree and has not yet been merged in the mainline upstream
>> kernel. I don't know if Ubuntu have back-ported it to any of their
>> released kernels.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mat
>>
>> --
>> Mat Booth
>> http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
>>
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