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update to wicd on the acer netbook

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Philip Sargent
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@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ above the sink/stove area and connected via a usb cable to the Acer netbook. The
<p>The potato hut WiFi is running DHCP and allocating IP addresses of the form 192.168.1.x where x is a number between 11 and 99 .
<p>The <em>Expo laptop</em> has a dynamic local address of this form.
It has a 64GB microSD card plugged into it which holds the local copy of /expofiles/ .
<p>The Acer Aspire netbook ("tclaspire3") is on <a href="http://192.168.1.100/">192.168.1.100</a> as one might expect.
<p>The Gasthof WiFi - which you can still use - is "staudnwirt" and has no WiFi password. It allocates IP addresses in the range
<p>The Acer Aspire netbook ("tclaspire3") is ona static address <a href="http://192.168.1.100/">192.168.1.100</a>.
<p>The Gasthof WiFi - which you can still use - is "StaudnGast" and has no WiFi password but there is a login webpage (Gast/Gastin21). It allocates IP addresses in the range
192.168.2.x etc. The antenna is now on the first-floor balcony within
sight of the tatty hut window.
<p>The Acer As is on 192.168.1.100 on WiFi.
<p>The Acer Aspire is on 192.168.1.100 on WiFi.
This is the address to use for configuring it using ssh when everything else has failed. So to manage the
connection to the Gasthof WiFi you would use
<pre>
@@ -94,9 +94,15 @@ ssh expo@192.168.200.100
to run Mark Shinwell's script (re-edited by Sam 2019)
<pre>/root/fakenet/runfakenet
</pre>
This typically needs to be run once or twice a day when the internt stops working.
This typically needs to be run once or twice a day when the internet stops working.
Sometimes you have to walk over to the blue laptop and run this script directly by typing on its keyboard
as the network has collapsed so badly that <span style="font-family:monospace">ssh</span> doesn't work.
as the network has collapsed so badly that <span style="font-family:monospace">ssh</span> doesn't work.
<p>The Acer netbook needs to have its persistent networking set up correctly <i>in addition to the script</i>. This is the
<b>wicd</b> gui program that has an icon in the top-right of the sceen in the system panel. (Or search in all applications in the Internet section
for the wicd application). Set the checkboxes so that the Acer does connect to any network except the Staudingast wifi network,
and also tick the 'automatica;lly reconnect' checkbox for the "StaudnGast" network.
<h3>Historical Note</h3>
<p>Prior to 2018 we used to run an unconnected local network with our own DNS domain