Hello, I often find that in hotels, setting up a wifi connection is a two-stage process under Windows XP. First, I must connect to the access point and then, when I open a web browser, I am redirected to a log-in/sign-up screen. Once I have paid for access, my network requests start going through.
I often find that something breaks down in this process when I am running Linux. Tonight I have been trying to get a wifi connection working at a Shilo Inn Hotel, which provides free wireless, but still redirects my first browser connection attempt to an agreement page. Unfortunately, I had to boot Windows to get to the page. Also, when I try to use NetworkManager in Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS (very current NM code), I get: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3 Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP Listening on LPF/eth1/00:12:f0:5e:db:2f Sending on LPF/eth1/00:12:f0:5e:db:2f Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.21.254 SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable bound to 192.168.21.10 -- renewal in 6356 seconds. I have: network-manager 0.6.2-0ubuntu7 After hunting about on the web, I eventually found the suggestion that I needed to use "route" to add a default gateway. After some experimentation, I found that: route add default gw 192.168.21.254 got my connection working. So, here's my question, why does WindowsXP set up this automatically and NetworkManager doesn't? Is this a bug in NM or in dhclient3 or in dhcdbd? Who should I follow up with? Since I have run into this issue many times, I suspect it is creating trouble for many, many other Linux laptop users. Thanks, Miles _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
