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skillian

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Registered: 2016-05-05

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Cannot connect to hotel WiFi

Hi, all,

I am trying to connect to my hotel wifi which (based on some Googling and how I underatand the Wifi guide here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … ual_setup) appears to be an open network that requires logging in from a browser after connecting. Because it appears to be an open network (i.e. `iw dev wlp3s0 scan` doean't show `Privacy` in its capabilities), I'm trying to connect with `iw dev wlp3s0 connect IHGConnect` which produces no output but when I then issue the `dhcpcd wlp3s0` command, I get a "waiting for carrier" message which tells me the connect didn't actually happen. If I include the `--debug` switch to the `iw` command, the response's ERRORMSG is "Success."

I've been trying to search the forums and Google but I'm getting a lot of results that don't match my issue. When I switch my phone to use its 3G instead of Wifi and enable tethering, I can use wpa_supplicant with wpa_cli to create a network and connect to it and then use dhcpcd to get an IP address and I then get Internet access, so I know Wifi works. When I try to connect to this open network, I stop wpa_supplicant first. I'm not sure what my next troubleshooting step(s) should be. Any pointers?

Last edited by skillian (2018-03-18 02:40:15)

skillian

Member

Registered: 2016-05-05

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect to hotel WiFi

Ah, don't you love it when you figure it out moments after posting!  When I switched to using the

iwconfig

command instead of the

iw

command, I was able to connect instantly!