Post by: PoopyLoopy on November 22, 2006, 09:07:06 AM
I'm a staff member at a college and I have to live here in an apartment for my job. The wireless internet here is weird, it doesn't require a WEP key but if you want to use it you first need to open a browser which directs you to a sign in page. From there you need to sign into the network with your college username and password and you're all set for wireless. Problem is, the Wii and DS don't know what to do with this kind of setup. There must be SOME way around it, either by running some kind of program on my computer and running a router from the computer, or just setting some WEP/DNS/whatever setting on the Wii/DS to bypass it...but I know nothing about this stuff so I was wondering if anyone had any advice.
Can anyone help? Thanks.
Post by: Saturn2888 on November 24, 2006, 09:51:19 PM
There is an adapter for this. I'm VERY sure your college doesn't allow you to set up your own access point or router, so what you do is this:
find the USB adapter that is for the DS, and then from there, connect using your PC and the USB adapter will make it so your Wii can go online. I don't know the specifics, but if you read the really old mailbags from this summer, there's info on the DS USB wireless adapter.
Post by: PoopyLoopy on November 25, 2006, 09:57:19 AM
Post by: Saturn2888 on November 25, 2006, 10:03:44 PM
Post by: zero64 on November 27, 2006, 12:51:35 PM
To do this, you change the MAC address on your computer to that of the DS or Wii (if it's running Windows, you can use a program called Macshift), whichever you're trying to connect, then login. As soon as you're logged in, disconnect the computer from the wireless and try to connect the DS/Wii (change the MAC of the computer back to normal if you want to use it on the wireless connection). With any luck, the network will remember that you were logged in by the MAC.
Now this is not a great solution, and of course you would need to repeat this every time you wanted to access the internet, but it could possibly hold you over until you get Opera (which I hope would allow you to login).
Post by: PoopyLoopy on November 28, 2006, 03:32:33 AM
One last thing, I'm not super sure that I used macshift correctly as it's fairly complicated and there's no confirmation that you did anything right. How did you get it to work?
Post by: zero64 on December 03, 2006, 06:34:54 PM
To set the MAC, you type something like:
macshift 0123456789AB -i "Wireless Network Connection"
Where "0123456789AB" is replaced by your DS's MAC address, and "Wireless Network Connection" is the name of your connection as it appears in "Network Connections". This is assuming you are using Windows XP.
To restore my wireless MAC, I would run:
macshift -d -i "Wireless Network Connection"
You can put these in BAT/CMD files to make it easy to change quickly. If you want to confirm that your MAC has been changed, run "ipconfig /all" from the command line (you may have to be connected). Look for the wireless connection, at the Physical Address.
Post by: ZeldaWarlord on December 04, 2006, 05:49:02 PM
Post by: PoopyLoopy on December 06, 2006, 03:32:51 AM
Post by: PoopyLoopy on February 05, 2007, 11:12:50 AM
Post by: zero64 on February 28, 2007, 12:11:57 PM
First (it may seem obvious but I'm trying to cover the bases) make sure the DS is setup for the network, with the ssid or whatever it needs (in my case it also uses a WEP key).
Okay, are you able to connect to the wireless (i.e. log in with your school username and password) with your computer once you change the MAC address to the DS's MAC address? If so, once you do that, turn off the power to the wireless card (my laptop has a switch for the antenna), or disable the adapter in Network Connections. Immediately attempt to connect with your DS.
If all else fails, you could get a wireless router or USB adapter, as was suggested earlier.
