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Wireless Access

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Type of access

  • Students---As students pay a Technology Fee, the wireless network is free to use. You may have to re-register from year to year.
  • Faculty and Staff---You will have to pay to use the wireless network
  • Visitors---Are allowed 30 days of access from the time he/she registers his/her machine. For yearly visitors, we typically have to ask the networking folks to re-allow access.

About the network

UNL has a wireless network that covers most of campus. Before you can use it you must register your machine at: http://wireless-reg.unl.edu/

If you have a laptop with a wireless card, you can register it on-line before you arrive at UNL, so that when you arrive you will have access to the campus wireless network.

You will need to provide the MAC address of your wireless card.

You will not need a username/password for access, but some users, in order to configure their computers, may need to know that the network name (SSID) is tsunami.

Finding your MAC address

If you are lucky, your MAC address (Physical Address) of your wireless card is printed on a sticker on the underside of your machine.

If not, you will need to find it.

For Windows

  • Go to the Start menu and select Run
  • In the dialog box that pops up, type cmd
    • Now type ipconfig /all
    • In the information reported, you need to look for the "Physical Address" for your wireless card. This is the information you need to register you wireless card.

For MacOS X

  • Go to the Apple menu and select System Preferences
  • Select Network
  • You wish to view the settings for your Airport card. The "Airport ID" is the same as the MAC address for your wireless card. This is the information you need to register you wireless card.

For Linux

  • /sbin/ifconfig
  • And look for the wireless interface.
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