Re: [Bug 492349] Re: Connecting at public WiFi when using bootable pen drive

2010-01-21 Thread artsci2
Next test is on a bootable pen drive created from this U 9.10 live disk. Media is a Sandisk 8Gig. After unsucessful attemp to fomat using the USB creator I wnet to Gparted and deleted the partition and created a new ext2 primary. Then trying USB creator a "volume needs to be formatted" message app

Re: [Bug 492349] Re: Connecting at public WiFi when using bootable pen drive

2010-01-21 Thread artsci2
(Continued from my previous message this morning.)  I will try using the Freshly installed Ubuntu 9.10 with all updates ( as of morning 21Jan10) installed as dual boot on the internal HD. After booting Ubuntu I had to go up to the toobar icon and drop down the menue for connecting to the wireles

Re: [Bug 492349] Re: Connecting at public WiFi when using bootable pen drive

2010-01-21 Thread artsci2
Hey Guys, I'm at a coffee shop right now. Panera in Kalamazoo, MI, USA. Toshiba Laptop Satellite A205-S5804 with mem upgrade to 2Gb. Starting from Windows. The wireless network is automatically recognized with tray icon indicating www conection. I start Internet explorer and instead of my google

Re: [Bug 492349] Re: Connecting at public WiFi when using bootable pen drive

2010-01-21 Thread artsci2
I'm at the coffee shop now. I'll verify things using IE, Firefox, and Chrome on windows then switch to Ubuntu and try firefox and Chrome --- On Wed, 1/20/10, Vish wrote: From: Vish Subject: [Bug 492349] Re: Connecting at public WiFi when using bootable pen drive To: arts...@yahoo.com Date: Wed

Re: [Bug 492349] Re: Connecting at public WiFi when using bootable pen drive

2010-01-14 Thread artsci2
OK when I get back to the coffee shop I'll do some experiments a file against FF and file the results. --- On Thu, 1/14/10, Tony Espy wrote: From: Tony Espy Subject: [Bug 492349] Re: Connecting at public WiFi when using bootable pen drive To: arts...@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010

Re: [Bug 492349] Re: Connecting at public WiFi when using bootable pen drive

2010-01-13 Thread artsci2
How it works here is not quite what you are saying. The wireless connecion is auto detectedand then the connecion is established when I select connect.  It's only when I open the web browser in windows my homepage seeting is somhow ignored and insead the login page for Panera coffee shop pops up