[TriLUG] Hotel wireless internet and Linux

[stan briggs]

all,

i too had similar frustrations using a linux laptop and a hotel's wireless
network. for some random reason (don't recall why) i tried telling my laptop
to connect to ANY wifi connection that it found (not to a specific one).
worked like a champ from then on.

i don't know if this is repeatable at a different location or not. my (two)
experiences since then did work with the published ESSID.

stan 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of William Sutton
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 3:08 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Hotel wireless internet and Linux

I've had the same frustration at other hotels with cat5 and the hotel
network.  Same story:  you logon to their networ, a browser window should
open up, you enter authorization code, and off you go, except for in Linux.

Anyone comes up with a solution, I have my ears perked up.

William

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> I spent the last three nights at a Courtyard by Marriott in Arlington 
> Virginia, and was frustrated because I couldn't get their free 
> wireless internet access to play with my Linux laptop.
> 
> KWifiMgr seemed to find lots of access points, most of these seemed to 
> have an essid of etwireless, but there was at least one linksys essid 
> listed as well.
> 
> But not of these seemed to want to talk to my laptop.  It seemed as if 
> they were using encryption (as I would suspect), but the party line 
> seemed to be that I should be able to bring up a web browser and 
> connect.
> 
> Is there some magic foo foo dust to allow a wep key to be given out? 
> Is it windoze only foo foo dust?  Were there some other things I 
> should have tried with iwconfig or ifconfig or ...?
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