[ale] Wireless at resrots

[Keith Miller]

Hey Chris,

I'm over at Plantation Resort at Surfside and had horrible connection
issues.  Mine seem to be related to PatronSoft Captive Portal and a
buggy 2.6.24 kernel.  I write this even now on Windows 2000.  I found
the I couldn't connect to the AP by ESSID because the name was too long
(Uh??!), then when I worked around that I could sometimes get an IP from
the DHCP server.  But the clincher was the CaptivePortal. I'd have to
fire up Firefox to sign in and I'd hard lock every time. Nasty stuff.  I
did happen to find an open, unsecured AP named "dlink" so I "borrowed"
that just to compare. My lockups took longer, if at all, to occur.  I
also found no connection problems using the two "open" AP at the
resort's outside pool and activity center.

That's when I found this running thread:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/204996

And I found this thread:

http://www.patronsoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7320&sid=8a7441fedc8271292b1ed2bedcf8d03f

So I'd say i was "..twice bitten once shy".

I did find some stablity by using iwconfig, dhclient, and lynx in the
CaptivePortal scenario but otherwise I felt annoyed that I paid for
in-room service AND was forced to use the Windows Partition.

K (Running Debian/Lenny 2.6.24 with XFCE)


cfowler at outpostsentinel.com wrote:
> I think this might be the 3rd or 4th time I've ran into this problem with
> no resolution.  It makes me a bit nervous that I may have to keep a Vista 
> partition on my laptop just to get on the Internet.p
>
>
> I'm at the Long Bay Resort in Myrtle Beach.  I'm on Vista because it is my
> only choice.  For some odd reason  my laptop refuese to connect up
> to any of thei APs here.  They have a mesh network with multiple APs. 
>
> For the most part I've not had any problems doing Linux wireless until I
> go on vacation.  My last problem was at a Sheraton resort in Orlando.  If you
> research the ALE archives you'll see I experienced a problem where my card
> would connect but only work for 5 minutes.  The only way I was able to work
> wireless there was in Vista.  
>
> Has anyone esle experienced strangeness in connecting to access points
> from Linux?  Any solution?
>
> I'm using an Ac er 5100 with a Broadcom b/g embedded card.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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