Hi, Tommy, thanks for kicking off the Winter Quarter CUIP reporting.

Too bad that suggestion from Ms Ahad for a USB cable didn't pan out.  I don't understand either why their order for some hasn't gone thru.  Russ, any ideas?  

Also Russ may have some ideas on the best way to proceed with those donated boxes.

The new wireless installations at several schools differ from the old wireless which was uniform across CPS.  Under the new system <ul>
<li> the SSID is not broadcast, and is school-specific
<li> the encryption/authentication is no longer WEP but WPA
<li> the key for that also is school-specific
<li> at least those two school-specific items are not totally arbitrary, but can be predicted from some generalizations of the school info  
</ul>

We have a copy of a doc that was given to a school, about configuring different computers for the new wireless, complete with screenshots :) posted at http://tech.cuip.net/topics/wireless/New-CPS-wireless-config.doc (There is a password on that URL -- use the username and password that you used to sign on to this Reporting blog).   I will write to you in a separate message with what the SSID and WPA key ought to be -- also you should be able to get them from Ms. Banks.

  ==mitch