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07-04-2005, 09:20 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Geneva NY USA
Distribution: MX-16
Posts: 111
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no web in hotels
Whenever I am in a hotel, I cannot get web access. I have tried both Firefox and Konqueror without success at a range of hotels, both those that charge for access and those that do not, both wireless and wired. I have XP installed as well (despite my signature) and it has no trouble, so I know the hardware is working fine.
I cannot find that anyone else has this problem, despite searching this site and using search engines. I would appreciate some guidance since I hate going back to my *legacy OS* for anything.
Thanks.
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07-05-2005, 08:48 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Debian Etch/Sid, Ubuntu
Posts: 529
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Please provide details about your network configuration. Do you need dhcp?
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I cannot get web access. I have tried both Firefox and Konqueror without success
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Do you mean that you can ping sites, resolve names, but can't use browsers?
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07-05-2005, 08:59 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Geneva NY USA
Distribution: MX-16
Posts: 111
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It is set to use dhcp automatically, and I have never tried to ping (should have, huh?!), just use a browser.
Problem is, I forget until the next time I am in a hotel, so have never had the time to try to solve it. I always assumed it had something to do with the presence of a proxy server, but really didn't know.
Thanks for getting back to me.
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07-05-2005, 09:06 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Debian Etch/Sid, Ubuntu
Posts: 529
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I always assumed it had something to do with the presence of a proxy server
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Unlikely, since it worked in Windows.
Check that dhcp does all its job, and sets:
IP (check with ifconfig)
Netmask (check with ifconfig)
DNS server (/etc/resolv.conf) ***Likely problem here (check with cat /etc/resolv.conf)
Default gateway (check with route)
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07-06-2005, 11:15 AM
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MEPIS volunteer
Registered: May 2005
Location: Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Elive, MEPIS
Posts: 24
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In the command line, type => ifconfig -a to see what is active.
If there is nothing, type => ifup -a to activate whatever you have
If they do have wifi, one thing that I noticed, is when I disable my wifi card from within Windoze, it will prevent the ifup from working on that card. It must be a hardware setting or something. Maybe you should try Windoze and enable everything. Then go into 'nix and ifup -a.
If that doesnt get you an IP address, then I am not too sure what would be an issue.
I can grab wifi from my local hotel.
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07-06-2005, 12:12 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Mepis/RedHat/Fedora
Posts: 27
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Could be DNS server problem.
In your System/OS Center, go to networks and click "misc." Make sure that DNS is set to be acquired by DHCP, not static.
Also, it would be a good idea to stop all the interfaces except the one you want to connect on.
Also, (re)start Firefox/Mozilla after you've enabled the connection (sometimes it caches things you don't want cached).
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07-07-2005, 05:30 AM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Geneva NY USA
Distribution: MX-16
Posts: 111
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Thanks for the good suggestions, I will run through them all next time I am in a hotel.
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