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.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any help offered.
> >
> > James Marple
> >
> > P.S. On a side note anyone wanting to disscuss any of the educational
> > stuff let me know.
> > Mom owns the penny lane daycares we have been getting wonderful
> > results with the kids and edubuntu!!
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