[Nottingham] Wireless connection at University of Nottingham

[Cat Clarkson]

Oh, it could well just be a locational thing then, fairly sure no one in my
office can use it on iphone/blackberry/android - will try elsewhere on
campus at some point.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:38 PM, David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk>wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> --
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