wireless card for motel?

Newbie Question?

I have a Linksys Wireless-B Notebook Adapter card to connect my laptop
at home.
I'm going to stay at a motel with free wireless internet. My son works
at one of these same motels and tells me all that I will need is their
password to connect if I have a wireless card.

Will my wireless card work in order to connect? Or are we talking about
some other type of wireless card?
I've never connected to free wireless at a motel before.

On 10 Jan 2005 05:41:21 -0800, "Jeff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

~ Newbie Question?
~
~ I have a Linksys Wireless-B Notebook Adapter card to connect my laptop
~ at home.
~ I'm going to stay at a motel with free wireless internet. My son works
~ at one of these same motels and tells me all that I will need is their
~ password to connect if I have a wireless card.
~
~ Will my wireless card work in order to connect? Or are we talking about
~ some other type of wireless card?
~ I've never connected to free wireless at a motel before.

Yes, your card should work fine. Normally hotels/motels with wireless
service just do open authentication with no encryption, so any old
802.11b card should do.

Aaron

thank you much.

I have never connected to free wireless anywhere before. Was unsure if
I needed to do some configuring in advance, or if my home wireless
adapter was the same type they used at places like this.

My son told a message would just pop up automatically and ask me for
the motel's password. If that is all there is to it, then I will be
fine.

thanks for your help.