Re: Wirless Connection with Linux

On Apr 8, 10:37 pm, Preventer of Work <not_t...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
jessedorl...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi

I am trying to connect to a free wifi provided by Toronto Reference.
In order to use the connection, I have to go to the following website
"http://spyders.local/aaa/tpl_login.html";.

In windows when I open firefox and click on a url, it normally would
take me to that url. This is not the case in Linux.

How do i overcome this issue?

Thanks in advance.

It could be they use java or javascript links and you have one or the
other disable.

If it's an OS issue, you can run Opera or Konqueror and have the browser
tell the site is it really IE running on Windows (easiest to set up on
Konqueror which lets you step up to ie5.5 on Winders 98).

I don't think so. It might be a url issue. Last week I saw a girl
surfing the internet on her Mac Book, and even here in this beach
library there are few ppl with mac book. I think browser might be
confused b/c library's wifi try to transfer to a url with "local"
which normally confuses linux. In linux local normally is a computer
address, in this case my laptop IP?
.

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