On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 06:10 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote:

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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.

Hi, I wrote an answer to somebody else's post on this subject last night and I think that I must have hit the reply key instead of reply all, since it never showed up in the list. I travel two weeks or more per month for my job and spend a lot of time in hotels. Here are the steps that I use to connect to the internet when things don't work easily. First, the problem with connection mentioned in the original post is usually because of a windows scaling problem with the old routers that the hotels use. In order to overcome this run this command in console as root: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling That will get you connected to the router, next it is necessary to sign up via the hotel billing screen for the internet. Sometimes it will only accept that via Internet Explorer. Here is what I do to get around that. There is an extension for firefox called user agent switcher. If you use that you can fool the system into thinking you are using IE. Here is a link to the extension that you can install to your Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 If you use konqueror, look for the tools menu. On the drop down list there is a tool called change browser identification, and it has a little sherlock holmes hat icon. You can change the browser to identify itself as IE. Opera identified itself as IE to networks, at least on earlier versions. Perhaps that still holds, anyways it seems to work sometimes. IEs4Linux is another way to get online with the hotel network, but after you have gotten online with any of these browser tricks you can use any browser you wish for regular browsing. If nothing works in Linux you can log in in Windows, then shut down and boot Suse. If you log in to the internet via the hotel's billing scheme you are in for whatever OS you use after that. If nothing works, reboot suse and call the Technical assistance line for the hotel. If you have booted suse and are trying to get online, they will ask for your IP address. As root in console run the command "ifconfig" without the quotation marks to find your IP address. Once you give them the address, they will reply "Oh yes, I see it here. I am going to allow you access for 24 hours (or whatever period you request)." Then you will be allowed onto the internet. That's my whole bag of tricks, I hope that it will help the fledgling road warriors on the list. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org