Re: [opensuse] Hotel connection problem

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:09 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Per Jessen wrote:

Mark Misulich wrote:

Hi,
I am at a hotel in China where I can't get onto the internet with
linux. [snip]
I am connected with a cable connection via ethernet, and can get linux
to connect to the hotel network via knetwork manager.Â

So you do have a connection then.  Do you have name resolution working?
Try "dig www.opensuse.org" from the command line.
Then try "ping www.opensuse.org".

If both of those work, you're on-line.

Unfortunately, many pay services do weird things to get you to the
login/pay page, per the OP. The fact that you have a physical connection
does not always enable routing of traffic from your MAC.

I would suggest ensuring that Javascript & cookies are enabled - many of
the pay sites/processes require such gyrations on the client side.

You might also watch closly on a Windoze machine that works - there's a
small chance of some IE specific code doing the redirect to the login
page. If you can catch what is happening on the first connect, it might
give you a clue as to what you're missing on the Linux side.

If you can, try launching directly TO the login page to authenticate/pay..

       Lee
--

Hi,
your thoughts are the same as mine, I wrote the URL addresses of the
login page down from windows so I could try launching my linux browser
to that/those pages before I received your reply.  It didn't work,
even though I was using ies4linux IE6 to try and get online.  I can
get online here with windows, but not linux.  I leave here this
morning for Central Asia, so I will have to try working on this
problem in a month or so when I return here.  I expect to come here a
lot so I would like to work out how to get online with linux.

Mark

I forgot to say that the hotel IT guy put in a seperate url for a page
that he is authorized to access for the hotel, but even it didn't
work. We couldn't get online with that page, and the browser wouldn't
launch to that page.
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Relevant Pages

  • Re: [opensuse] Hotel connection problem
    ... I am at a hotel in China where I can't get onto the internet with ... So you do have a connection then. ... give you a clue as to what you're missing on the Linux side. ... even though I was using ies4linux IE6 to try and get online. ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: [opensuse] Hotel connection problem
    ... I am at a hotel in China where I can't get onto the internet with ... I am connected with a cable connection via ethernet, and can get linux ... So you do have a connection then. ... even though I was using ies4linux IE6 to try and get online. ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: Davenport Lyons - Watchdog Report
    ... over his connection, I think you'd find a lot of people would in ... It may be possible for the hotel to provide ... How does that make it right that there should be little havens all over the place where anyone can go and do those things online without fear of any reprisal? ...
    (uk.legal)
  • High speed internet woes in hotels
    ... a hotel. ... My toshiba laptop would only stay online for 5 minutes; ... connection. ...
    (uk.comp.sys.laptops)
  • Re: PPPoE and ADSL problem (1 solution)
    ... >> shutdown from Win and then boot into Linux. ... > of evidence of win xp and linux dual booting and linux having connection ... > this is a bug or not? ... Boot windows. ...
    (comp.os.linux.networking)
Loading