"Don't you hate it when you have a problem, only to be told, 'On my machine, it just works'? I know I do. So when Ben Okopnik wrote in Linux Gazette #127:
"[ I do a lot of travelling, and connect to a wide variety of strange WLANs. In my experience, at least, connecting to a wireless LAN with Linux is usually just as simple as Edgar describes. -- Ben ]
"This motivated me to solve a long-standing problem: I could not connect to 'open' wifi access points. I had no trouble at all with closed access points; someone gives me the ESSID and the WEP key, and I'm on. But plop me down at a hotel, airport, or coffee shop, and no amount of fiddling would get me connected..."
