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| Crell | Hi folks. Question. I've a Kubuntu 19.04 laptop. It is, for unknown reasons, refusing to connect to some Wifi networks. Or rather, it says it connects but never gets an IP, and never gets redirected to the network's registration page. (Hotel Wifi.) It works tethered through my phone, but it seems networks that require registration it won't work on. This is the second hotel where it's happened. What could be the issue? | 02:09 |
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| DarinMiller | Crell: Does the networkmanager show the connection to the hotel wifi? By chance, do you just need to launch a browser and acknowledge the hotel login? | 02:20 |
| Crell | Network manager shows the connection and says it's connected. | 02:22 |
| Crell | I go to my browser (firefox or chrome) and it never tries to connect to the registration form, just says it can't connect to whatever site I try to access. | 02:22 |
| Crell | I have also tried rebooting, and at the last hotel I called tech support and they registered my MAC manually, yet it still wouldn't connect. | 02:23 |
| Crell | Also, fun fact. I'm using my phone hotspot right now to talk to you, and it's periodically failing that connection, too. Disconnecting and reconnecting it works. | 02:25 |
| Crell | So something is definitely wrong. | 02:25 |
| valorie | in the past, I too have had difficulty getting the browser to connect to the registration page | 02:47 |
| valorie | eventually by trying various browsers, I got one to do it | 02:47 |
| valorie | my solution was to leave that one open with just that page | 02:47 |
| Crell | Which one worked? I tried both that I have on here. | 02:47 |
| valorie | while using my usual | 02:47 |
| valorie | I think chrome or FF worked | 02:48 |
| valorie | I usually use Falkon | 02:48 |
| valorie | I hate those captive things | 02:48 |
| valorie | hotels and airports are infamous for using them | 02:48 |
| Crell | Yeah. That's what seems to be broken, though. Yet my phone didn't even need a registration page. It just-worked. | 02:51 |
| valorie | right, I've seen that sometimes as well | 02:51 |
| valorie | really annoying | 02:51 |
| Crell | Indeed. No idea what the cause is, though? | 03:08 |
| valorie | I don't | 03:10 |
| valorie | however the fact that *some* browser succeeds leaves me thinking that it's crap web-programming | 03:11 |
| valorie | microsoft browsers are well-known for working anyway on really crappy sites | 03:11 |
| valorie | linux is a bit more picky in expecting sites to meet standards | 03:12 |
| Crell | But why wouldn't it work then even after the tech support at the last hotel manually registered my MAC? | 03:20 |
| valorie | that probably doesn't affect a browser one way or another | 03:28 |
| valorie | but I don't know enough to say | 03:28 |
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