What you need is KisMac (get from versiontracker...)
Crack the damned network, and live high on the free wireless hog. Unless
they have MAC address filtering on, which makes things a bit more
difficult.
Oh, did I mention that the above is technically "wrong?"
Right.
Jeremy
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Thomas Tempelmann wrote:
>
> Sam du Rose wrote:
>
> >The network gave me an ip address using DCHP but that is as far as it
> >went, just errors when trying to do anything over the network.
>
> Was that a number beginning around 169.x.y.z? Then this is a addr that is
> used when there was actually no DHCP server found.
>
> > From what i can tell, I basically need more settings that my school's
> >IT guy just won't hand over (some rubbish to do with network
> >security...)
>
> Well, it IT does their job right, they use WEP (encryption) with a
> password, which you'll hardly be able to find out (that's the purpose of
> it). Otherwise, You might be able to find the network name with a Mac
> with Airport installed (it'll list all wireless networks - unless it's
> hidden). In any case: if the IT guy knows what he's doing, you won't get
> around him.
>
> Thomas
>
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