Welcome to Telerama Public Access Wireless! Below, you will find some general instructions for using your laptop and wireless card to take advantage of this service, as well as more specific directions organized by Operating System. If you should find that you need additional assistance, please feel free to contact our technical support team via telephone, email, or real-time chat.

The default configuration for most any wireless network card (802.11b)should work straight out of the box. In general:

1. Make sure that Power Management is OFF.
2. Use a network name of "ANY" or "*". If this doesn't work, try a network name of "Telerama" (without the quotes).
3. Make sure your card is NOT in ad-hoc mode.
4. Configure TCP/IP to use the card and to get its addresses dynamically via DHCP.
5. Be sure that WEP is disabled.

For details, find your Operating System among the following and configure it accordingly.
Windows 95/98/ME     Win2k     Mac 9.x     OSX     Free BSD     Linux

Windows 95/98/ME

1. Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> Network
2. Chose the TCP/IP properties of your wireless card.
3. Under "IP Address", choose "Obtain an IP address automatically".
4. Under "WINS Configuration", choose "Use DHCP for WINS resolution".
5. Click "OK".
6. Click "OK" to close out the Network Control Panel.
7. Reboot.

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Win2k

1. Start --> Settings --> Network and Dial-Up Connections --> Local Area Network.
2. Connect using: your wireless card.
3. Choose Internet Protocol, and click Properties.
4. Choose "Obtain IP Address Automatically".
5. Click "Advanced"; under the "IP Settings" tab, "DHCP Enabled" should be under "IP addresses".

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MacOS 9.x

1. Apple Menu --> Control Panel --> TCP/IP.
2. Connect via: Airport card.
3. Configure using: DHCP.
4. Quit and Save.

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OSX

1. Apple Menu --> System Prefs.
2. Choose Network.
3. Configure using either Apple Airport or Ethernet Adaptor.
4. Configure: Using DHCP.
5. Save.

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FreeBSD

(This assumes pccard_enable="yes" in rc.conf, which should make the wireless card device 'wi0' or a similar device name).

1. To ensure DHCP is working properly, type:1. killall -9 dhclient.
2. route delete default
3. dhclient wi0 (or your device name).

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Linux

Note: ethN should be your wireless networking card.

1. "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethN" should contain BOOTPROTO=dhcp.
2. run pump -s -i ethN; this should give you a dhcp connection on the specified adapter.

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