Starbucks' free AT&T Wi-Fi: works with Linux, not so much with OpenBSD
I hooked up my Starbucks card with AT&T today to draw on the free Wi-Fi now available at the coffee giant, and was pleasantly surprised to have good broadband speed in Puppy Linux 2.13 on the $15 Laptop (Compaq Armada 7770dmt).
I was even able to sign on using the Dillo browser. I started Seamonkey after that, but just being able to log in with Dillo was a surprise.
Even more of a surprise, however, was that the AT&T Wi-Fi didn't work in OpenBSD 4.2, which I have installed as the primary OS on the laptop.
Now I know that wireless works fine in OpenBSD, because I use it at home and at the Los Angeles Public Library. When OpenBSD booted, I got an IP, and I could ping that IP. I should've written down the location's IP and tried to ping that. Otherwise, I couldn't ping anything, and as a result could not get any services to work. That means I couldn't get data into or out of the laptop.
Why does AT&T Wi-Fi work in Linux but not OpenBSD? That's a good question
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