Linux OLPC and Toronto Public Library WiFi

[William Park]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric Battersby <gyre at vex.net>
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:47:43 PM
> Subject: [TLUG]: Linux OLPC and Toronto Public Library WiFi
> 
> I walked into a Toronto Public Library expecting my OLPC to
> work right away with their WiFi.  No ping to the Internet and
> the browser went to 404.  The browser is supposed to reach an
> "end user agreement" page.
> 
> As per some old TLUG maillist entries, etc, I 'yum' installed
> winbind and smb.
> I changed /etc/nsswitch to add 'wins' to the end
> of the 'hosts' line.
> 
> Later, at the library, I booted the computer and verified that
> 'smb' and 'winbind' were running.  Still no go.
> What am I missing?

Windows.
-- 
William

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