Ubuntu Networking :: Connect To Public Wifi In Coffee Shops And Fast Food Restaurants?
Jun 5, 2011
I know this has been covered before, and I have searched for two hours with no success. Problem: When trying to connect to public wifi in coffee shops and fast food restaurants, I can connect to the networks fine, but Firefox will not display the page that requires input of a code or terms agreement.
I remember months ago reading something about using the ifup command somehow as a work around, but there must be an easier way.
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May 7, 2010
My wireless seems to be fast for a good 30secs then bang takes good while to load the next page almost as if it's disconnecting and then reconnecting/scanning reconnecting. Why cant it stay connected. I have WAP PSK security here is my network setting please let me know if I should change any of them:(side not is there a way to fix this problem occuring so frequently it says on the wiki that it should only occur once in a whilce https:[url].....
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May 13, 2009
the only error message I can find comes from "dmesg|tail"all it shows is
"no IPv6 router"any body know what is going on here or where where to look for more clues the next time I get around public wifi Oh the windoze washers and apple polishers don't seem to have any problems at all
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Jan 22, 2011
I have a strange problem that I cannot diagnose -- slow wifi. About two or three weeks ago, I noticed that my wifi began to slow down dramatically. The problem is the same on my ubuntu laptop and my ipad. But when I connect directly to the router with a network cable, my connection is fine. So it is definitely a problem with the wifi signal itself.
What I have done so far:
(1) I checked all of the MAC addresses connected to my wifi. I identified my tivo box, laptop, and ipad. Nothing else.
(2) I used [I]wifi analyzer[I] on my android phone and selected an unused wifi channel (channel 8).
(3) I changed the username/password on my wifi signal. I also changed the password for my router's admin privileges.
(4) I restarted my router and computer.
None of this helped.
I am using a Netgear WGR614 wireless router.
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Aug 5, 2009
I have been trying to test the use of X window forwarding over SSH in a cafe. The Cafe's WiFi requires login via a web browser. Using Fedora 11 with Gnome on a Dell Latitude D600 laptop, the wireless works just fine. I am able to use a virtual terminal to ssh to my server at home. NX client/server works also. However, when I change to Run Level 3 on the Laptop in order to use X Window forwarding, wireless networking fails to function. Will wireless networking function at Run Level 3, and if so, how is that accomplished? Also, if I get Wireless to work at Run Level 3, will I be able to login to the free public wifi using Lynx or some other text browser, as I can with IE and Firefox?
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Aug 29, 2009
I have only had a few weeks worth of experience with linux, so I'm probably considered a newbie at this but I felt like giving it a shot. I just configured my new Toshiba Satellite A505-S6969 to jaunty. Most of the transition is going well but I'm stuck with a few issues, one of which is getting my wifi to work. Right now I'm working off of an ethernet cable.spci returns
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port
[code]...
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Feb 12, 2010
I'm looking for some independent solutions: Uses PPP or SLIP or PLIP or BlueTooth or Firewire or Makes one laptop appear as a "USB drive" to the other Both laptops are enet & wifi equipped and might be on the same LANWe could use a geek stick or similar flash drive device but that is so un-cool with less that zero shazaam.In similar un-cool fashion, we could interact with some server out on the net somewhere.Firewire point-to-point or USB point-to-point would be interesting.Ethernet (100baseT) point-to-point could be easy. We all carry a short drop cable and would need a crossover-block for RJ45 for direct connection of two machines.Some net setup and away we go.
If both laptops are on the same coffee-house LAN using either wifi or enet, a few lines of script might (1) announce current IP and wait for connection, and (2) accept a client IP and connect. If this connection was a tunnel of some sort, we are off to the races.As always, Mr. Phelps, if either you or any of your Tux Force know of an off the shelf solution, I'll beg forgiveness and gladly sing your praises every chance that I get.
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Jul 18, 2011
I want to use my personal computer remotely. The problem is my computer is connected to a local network that I can't modify. I can connect from my computer to another one that has public IP via ssh. Is it possible to login to the "proxy" computer from somewhere and somehow use the connection established before to connect to my PC?
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May 26, 2009
My computer takes a while to connect to my Linksys N router.
It used to connect in a snap of your finger automatically.
Now it does not.
Yes I have tried manual configuration, and double checking the password, ssid, protocols, and security type.
WPA2 personal is the security type.
There are maybe 4 different ways I know how to connect. The most annoying thing is when this box pops up saying to type in a password for the network connection.. and keeps popping up even when everything is right.
All I need is a reliable, easy, and automatic program to connect me to the internet, maybe even before I log into my system.
Linux Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition is my system. Brilliant system.
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Jan 11, 2011
We have to connect one PC in private network (campus) with other PC (mostly a modem in our case)in public network. Connection should be peer to peer like and we have to use C coding for establishing connection between this two systems. Is it possible if we use port forwarding or is there any other way?
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Aug 8, 2011
I can connect to the internet through wifi, but I cannot connect to anything on my network. I have a printer and a NAS, so I would really like for this to work again. I have a dell laptop with a Broadcom card.
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May 3, 2011
I can not connect to wifi networks, i can see them but not connect.
My wifi device is:
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Jul 19, 2010
I am going to be away semi permanently and want to create a VPN that will allow me to act as if my laptop was connected to my home network.
All I want is for the drives to be accessible so I can use them for primary access as if they are in the laptop.
Questions:
1. Can I set up a Linux VPN that is secure using public WiFi (or however I connect to the net) when I am on the road?
2. I will be using a desktop (32 bit) as the server, what version of Linux would be best for this?
3. If my server is linux and the server drives are NTFS will they be accessible using a windows machine? (I will be double booting the laptop)
4. I would like to set up a pass-code that is stored on the laptop so that only that machine can get access.
This can be up to 255 characters and encrypted so it would be very hard to break. Even I would not know what it is. (I would store it on a pen drive and be able to recover it from there.)
One more. I might want to add separate users that only have access to their one drive, not the server drive. Is that OK?
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Dec 2, 2010
Having played around with ubuntu a fair bit I decided to breathe life into an old thinkpad with a pcmcia wireless card, by following the minimal install instructions and using lxde window manager etc.. Everything works fine apart from the fact that I cannot connect wirelessly. The card picks up and lists connections but whenever I have clicked on a connection the dail spins and then it gives up.I installed network-manager and managed to get nm-applet appearing in the sysTray otherwise I would not even have known there was wireless connections there.
I was thinking there maybe some conflict with another network manager, does this sound likely?
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Jan 14, 2011
I'm having an issue recently with Ubuntu 10.04 x64. Connecting to my wifi is not working. I believe it is some kind of issue with the router. On Windows 7 the only way that I could connect to the net was by copying the network profile to a usb flashdrive from another computer and loading it mine. The wireless signal just keeps attempting to connect.
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May 28, 2011
I have Ubuntu 10.04 on my EeePC 1000H. I don't use this computer often but it has always worked before... I suspect an update did this to me. I've recently swapped wireless routers but all my other machines have been able to connect to the new router. I can see the SSID and the signal strength is high but when I try to connect to it, it just attempts for a long time then asks me for my password again. I am currently connected to wired network.
Code:
michael@michaelsEeeUbuntu:~$ nm-tool
NetworkManager Tool
State: connected .....
pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
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Jun 17, 2011
I installed Ubuntu 11.04 yesterday and my wireless didn't work so I searched a little and found a way to make it work; Uninstalled bcmwl-kernel-source and installed firmware-b43-lpphy-installer and b43-fwcutter. And it worked. But today I accidentally pressed the "turn off wireless" button on my laptop. I obviously pressed it again and thought it would work but it doesn't. Now I find networks and stuff but I can't connect to them. It tries for awhile and then asks me to enter the password which I do (it is correct) and then it tries to connect for a few minutes again and then it asks me for the password again.
Some info:
Code:
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
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Aug 25, 2011
I'm having a problem to connect to the network at home via wifi, open or protected. Using ubuntu 11.04, attached are more details. I've managed to get a successful connection on an open network at work.
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Jan 7, 2010
is it possible to connect to my internet router from the console? for some reasone my gnome envirment removed and i want to install it again.
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May 21, 2010
I can connect to my home WiFi connection with no trouble at all.
I can't connect to a free public WiFi (like at a library).
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Jul 27, 2010
i am tryin to connect to internet through wifi. for this i have to connect to router first and then open the web browser to put UN and PW. I am using ubuntu. i know UN and PW. I can connect to router but my(any) web browser cannot open the authentication page.
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Aug 12, 2010
I have a 2wire card and gateway how do I install it and connect to the internet?
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Sep 10, 2010
I have a good connection with 9.04 but when I upgrade it to 10.4 the network keeps looking for wiFI. I have a Linksys USB adapter 2.4HZ.
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Nov 30, 2010
I just installed the XBMC from the XBMC live CD. I want to configure it in a way to auto-connect to internet. (my router is wpa-password protected.)
i know how to save the password and auto connect to internet from gnome GUI but not how to do it from command line. what should i install, change or configure in order to auto connect to internet? (using command line)
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Jan 4, 2011
I am running 10.10 on a Toshiba NB255 netbook. Wireless works find for me at home and worked last week at a hotel. At home I just use WEP, and my office network uses WPA. I can connect just fine from my work laptop but not from this netbook. The network shows up fine in the network manager and it asks for the WPA password, but doesn't establish a connection. Every once in a while it will say it is connected and has full strength but I can't ping anything, and within a minute or so it drops again. IIRC yesterday it connected via wireless and actually worked for maybe a minute before dropping at it hasn't worked since. Like I said, this has worked on other wireless networks.
Here is some output from dmesg:
Code:
[55086.034476] wlan0: authenticate with 00:15:62:ff:6e:89 (try 1)
[55086.037598] wlan0: authenticated
[55086.037658] wlan0: associate with 00:15:62:ff:6e:89 (try 1)
[55086.041880] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:15:62:ff:6e:89 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=4)
[55086.041891] wlan0: associated
[55089.045810] wlan0: deauthenticated from 00:15:62:ff:6e:89 (Reason: 2)
[55089.079974] cfg80211: All devices are disconnected, going to restore regulatory settings .....
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Feb 18, 2011
So recently we switched Internet Providers. While we had Bellsouth, my laptop would connect to our wireless internet flawlessly everytime. However, we just switched to Charter because it was both cheaper and faster. But now, my laptop will not connect to our wireless. If I hook it up to an Ethernet cord, it connects just fine. I believe they gave us a new modem/router or whatever it is that sends out the wifi signal.
I have tried to connect with this laptop on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Backtrack 4. On Ubuntu and Linux Mint, after I enter the correct WEP key, it sits there and tried to connect for a minute or two, but then the window pops up asking for the WEP key again, even though it's still filled out.
When I tried connecting on Backtrack, it told me that it could not obtain an IP address.
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Mar 15, 2011
I think I have unique problem. I have a d-link DWL G510 rev c.(Austrailian) WiFi card in my pc which is detected as
Quote:
Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g [1814:0302] in lspci -nn.
iwconfig shows:
Quote:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=6 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
ppp0 no wireless extensions.
Now sometimes it detects my wifi router and shows its ssid in nm-applet. but when I try to connect, it tries for 3 or 4 minutes and then fails. for most of time it even does not finds my router.
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Apr 7, 2011
about 90 percent of the time, i cannot connect to the internet. i click on the icon and select the network, but for some reason, instead of saying, "connection established", it says, "you are now disconnected."
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Apr 24, 2011
Wireless adapter is working OK because I can connect when network is unsecured, but when I try to connect to the secured wifi it just won't accept the password.
I can see available networks in Network Manager but can not connect. No error messages, just no connection.
Is there anything I can try to enable connection to the WEP secured router?
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Apr 26, 2011
Just reinstalled ubuntu 10.10 x86 on an old laptop.
The wireless doesn't seem to work and I have no idea how to solve this.
In gnome I can see NetworkManager display the network ESSID.
I have entered the key but no success, it tries to connect and then times out after about 1-2 mins.
I have tried to change the encryption from WPA2, to WPA to WEP to nothing but the same issue.
In a terminal/shell running ifconfig/iwconfig I can see eth1 as the networkinterface.
How can I investigate this further. If there was an IRQ collission or something it would not be showing the ESSID right?
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