[TriLUG] Hotel wireless internet and Linux

[William Sutton]

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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