On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Mark Misulich
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:09 AM, L. V. Lammert
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@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org