There was
some good news for your students who own a notebook computer
and a wireless LAN card! From mid-October 2001, just register
their wireless LAN cards with the Computing Services Centre
(CSC) and these students can easily connect their notebooks
to the Campus Wireless LAN (WLAN) whenever and wherever they
are.
Registration
of the LAN cards is necessary for the sake of security. Before
they can connect their notebooks to the WLAN, they need to download
the WLAN user authentication software from the Web (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/deptweb/facilities/ctnet/wlan/wlan-disks.htm)
and install it in their notebooks. Their LAN cards should also
be compliant to the IEEE 802.11b standard. Since there are many
brands and models of notebook computers available in the market,
the CSC simply cannot provide assistance to all of them. Currently,
only notebook computers from DELL and IBM (running Win98/2000)
are supported. A list of notebooks compatible with the CityU
WLAN, which is regularly updated, can be found at http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/deptweb/facilities/ctnet/wlan/wlan-notebook.htm
for their reference.
If you know
that any of your students are interested in this, please encourage
them to get an application form on wireless network connection
from the CSC Service Counter to help them better enjoy the WLAN.