Mike McMullin skrev:
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 06:10 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote:
Hi all,
I travel a lot for my work, and I've noticed many times that Linux wireless networking often doesn't connect to the networks that I'm offered in hotels.
I'm pretty sure (call me cynical, but...) that this is an issue with micro$oft base stations that expect a little bit of non-standard protocol. Since windoze adopts (creates?) that protocol, it all works for them, so nobody recognizes a problem.
Part of the reason I believe this is that I've found that if I reboot my machine into windoze it will almost always connect successfully. (Such is the case today, this mail is being sent from firefox under windoze, yuch!)
Sometimes, but not this time, I find that if I've first connected using windoze, I can then reboot back into Linux and the network connects properly (suggesting that the protocol issues are something to do with a one-time recognition of the machine's MAC address.
Anyway, is this something the SuSE community knows about, and maybe has a workaround for? If not, can I do anything to provide packet traces of windows succeeding and of Linux failing to connect? I used to use ethereal but that doesn't seem to be part of the distro any more. Is there something else I should use? And either way, what would be a workable tool under windoze?
The fast fix that I found was to use IE4Linux, after connecting to the base with that, I am able to use FireFox. I do complain to the Hotels, and tell them that not everyone wastes money on Windows.
I travel a lot. I sometimes encounter the same problem (windows only, expensive 1 hour internet...) at hotels in Denmark. I check this BEFORE I book, however. Then I call them up and tell them that they've just been deselected. Quite a few hotels have granted me free unlimited internet access uppon that message. The others have not received my visit. -- -------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 56964223 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org