On Thursday 16 April 2009, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Mark Misulich
wrote: 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.
Hi Have you checked the setting of the routing option under yast for your network card . I use DHCP here to connect to my internal network but i find i still have to enter the address of the gateway machine before i can get an outside connection this holds true on 10.0 10.3 11.0 11.1 also when i am at my friends Hotel in Wales i have to enter the ip of the gateway machine on the laptop running 11.1 Pete . -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org