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Quester

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Registered: 2013-09-16

Posts: 1

How to connect to a network that requires sign-on--i.e. Starbucks

I tried to connect to a Univ. "OPEN" guest-network but failed with Arch.
The network is open but requires to check a box on the welcome page to be able to get online.

Other distros like Mint, Ubuntu and even Kali work fine. I used NetworkManager. It connects but fails to load the page on the Browser. The bottom of the browser gives the message:
"Resolving Hosts". After that within 2 min, it hangs...

I tried to troubleshoot before posting this question. So far here is what was tried and failed:

1. Different browsers failed: Chromium, Firefox.
2. Restarting NM failed
3. Rebooting did not help
4. Pasting the link (and different parts of it) saved from using a different distro failed.

The NATted address of the network seem to be of the kind: 10.0.0.0

It seems this needs to be done manually. Here is some info about the ip address pulled from a different distro:

inet addr:10.82.30.136  Bcast:10.82.31.255  Mask:255.255.252.0

The login page is:

https://login.wireless.university.edu/fs/customwebauth/guest.html?switch_url=https://login.wireless.university.edu/login.html&
ap_mac=00:00:c0:71:27:20&wlan=UNIVERSITY-Guest&redirect=bbs.archlinux.org/

I don't know where the mac addr in the link came from. It is not mine and neither it is the mac of the AP the machine is connected to which is:
00:00:0c:08:90:dd [ether]

BTW the IP addr of the Gateway is 10.82.28.1

How should I proceed? Thank you

Last edited by Quester (2013-09-16 05:40:39)

moetunes

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Registered: 2010-10-09

Posts: 1,033

Re: How to connect to a network that requires sign-on--i.e. Starbucks

What worked for me in a similar situation:

I brought the connection up with wifi-menu.
I opened a browser and opened archlinux.org .
The login web page popped up and when I was done with that it redirected me to my 'home' page which was archlinux.org according to them.
ymmv
HTH

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