Trying to connect Ubuntu laptop to wireless at work

[nynco]

Packet Injection? See, I knew you all was faggots! Ain't nobody gonna Packet Injection me!

LOL

[Lex_Luthor]

I was manually selecting the network from the tray. It's not hidden. Robb (user here as well) just connected a laptop to the same network, running windows 7, and it connected with no problems. I've never had a problem connecting to a network before. This one is a wlan_guest network. Under Preferences > Network Connections, I selected this network from the list and clicked Edit. I selected to connect automatically. Mode: Infrastructure (the other option available is Ad-hoc). I just deselected "connect automatically" and hit apply.

[nynco]

Do you have confirmation that someone else can access the net on the "guest" network?

[nynco]

Redundant, I need to read others posts better.

[Lex_Luthor]

[nynco]

Still same question, can others access the net through the "guest" network?

[Lex_Luthor]

Yes. I did it from another brand spankin new Windows 7 machine, sitting not 2 feet from where I am. Is there such thing as a windows only network? I wonder if that's how this one is set up here at work?

[Monky]

H.

Yeah I just emailed that around the office.. Perhaps now a secretary won't expect me to know every aspect of 'word' just cause I know some computer stuff..

[nynco]

To my knowledge there is not such a thing. There are networks that do filter based on MAC id. That would requiring adding your systems MAC to the allowed list. That way of securing networks is older. Still done but rare.

[Zundfolge]

Yes. I did it from another brand spankin new Windows 7 machine, sitting not 2 feet from where I am. Is there such thing as a windows only network? I wonder if that's how this one is set up here at work?

Is there a limit to the number of guest logins allowed at any given time?

Also what kind of wireless card is in the Linux machine? Is it possible that the network is a newer 802.11n and you don't have an "n" capable wireless card on the laptop?