alt.os.linux ubuntu newsgroup, and from what I can gather the Network
Manager in Intrepid is "broken" in some respects. There are
fixes/workarounds I'm sure, but I couldn't tell you what they are
offhand. You might see if you can find a reference to your difficulties
there, or post there yourself. For some odd reason, that newsgroup isn't
archived by Google, so doing a search via Google Groups isn't possible.
jim marple wrote:
> The eeepc's are just my personal laptops the one being used by the
> student is acer forget model but pretty standard specs. the browser
> makes no diffrence i have opera 9 and opera 10 and a few others on my
> eee's just to check how pages are rendered diffrently.
>
> Firefox versions i think is 3.07 whatever a clean fully updated
> intrepid gives you (its 3.07 on my eeebuntu on eeepc900A) dont have
> access to his right now so not positive. no addon's other than default
> he has not discovered extensions yet.
>
> ok now what happens is you click on network manager and connect to ivy
> tech wireless it connects and shows your connected. as experiment i
> pinged the router i even went to the ip of the webserver that is hosting
> the login and it came up with the default webpage for a redhat
> enterprise webserver.(which is problem in and of itself i think but
> beside the point) all fine pinged www.yahoo.com no luck. Then you bring
> up firefox and it brings up page says convas or something like that with
> spining icon saying its redirecting you to login page which never
> happens it comes up with error page and try again.
>
> live ubuntu intrepid cd will do same thing but live hardy cd login is fine.
> Gos which is hardy based works fine mint 5 hardy based works fine.
> no firewall set either i checked.
>
> it's only intrepid that is haveing the problem updated hardy based
> distro's work fine no problems. I am comeing to the conclusion there are
> major problems with networking in intrepid my guess would be driver
> issues. so to eliminate that i changed his wifi card from a bcm4311
> based card to a intel one same problem. Which leads me back to the
> networking implimentation in intrepid.
>
> banging head against the wall helps for second but then i turn around
> and its still there haveing problems.:)
>
> no warnings and source view just gives me the source of the error page.
>
> > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:49:50 -0400
> > From: sorbetninja@gmail.com
> > To: blug@cs.indiana.edu
> > Subject: Re: [BLUG] Intrepid login at ivy tech problems
> > CC:
> >
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > I'm neither an Eee owner nor an Ubuntu (or Mint) user, but I'll do what
> > I can.
> >
> > First, I presume you're talking about using Firefox to display a
> > specific webpage to login to the wi-fi. Is that correct? If not, what
> > browser and version are you using, and what exactly is the error you are
> > getting? Do you get a blank page? A warning from the access point? A
> > warning from the browser saying the page isn't there? When you go to the
> > portal page and it doesn't display, can you do "View Source" and see the
> > HTML source for the portal page?
> >
> > Also, are there any add-ons that could be getting in the way? NoScript
> > breaks pages frequently and requires you to manually whitelist pages.
> > Are you using the same version of Firefox through all these tests? It's
> > possible the portal refuses to work with "unsupported" browsers (I think
> > the concept of "supported browsers" is total BS, but that's a rant for
> > another time).
> >
> > Have you tried a different browser?
> >
> > -Barry Schatz
> >
> > jim marple wrote:
> > > OK i am pulling my hair out on this one. A friend of mine is a IVY
> > > tech student and i cant get his laptop running linux mint felicia
> > > (ubuntu 8.10 based) to display the portal page. It shows as connected
> > > and brings up a page to redirect to the login portal but will not
> > > display the portal page.
> > >
> > > I even tried 3 diffrent versions of intrepid (Eeebuntu on my eeepc
> > > 900a), (stock ubuntu on my eeepc 900a) and (stock ubuntu 8.10 live cd
> > > on his laptop).
> > >
> > > My eeepc 701 running Gos and linux mint elyssa both ubuntu 8.04 based
> > > works fine it seems to be only 8.10 thats haveing a problem.
> > >
> > > Any sugestions would be greatly appreciated. I really dont want to
> > > reinstall his laptop with a 8.04 based distro if i dont have to but
> > > its looking like thats the only fix for now.
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Mark Warner
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