I'm using FC4 on a Dell Inspiron 2200 and connecting through the wired ethernet port. I connect all the time through this port at work and also connect wirelessly without problem. When I try to connect using the wired ethernet port using eth0 at a hotel using the gui interface, it connects sort of but I cannot view web pages or do much. I can see that I'm assigned an ip (I'm using dhcp) and I can guess at the gateway ip and the dns ip. If I create a route to the gateway (either using the route command or using the network gui) and enter the dns ip, I can then surf web pages, use ssh, etc. The only problem is I have to re-activate the connection frequently.
Any idea on why using dhcp doesn't work more automatically and more easily and why I keep losing the connection? I've run into this problem before with this laptop at other hotels that used wired ethernet. Wireless dhcp works as expected.
Rick B.
RICHARD wrote:
I'm using FC4 on a Dell Inspiron 2200 and connecting through the wired ethernet port. I connect all the time through this port at work and also connect wirelessly without problem. When I try to connect using the wired ethernet port using eth0 at a hotel using the gui interface, it connects sort of but I cannot view web pages or do much. I can see that I'm assigned an ip (I'm using dhcp) and I can guess at the gateway ip and the dns ip. If I create a route to the gateway (either using the route command or using the network gui) and enter the dns ip, I can then surf web pages, use ssh, etc. The only problem is I have to re-activate the connection frequently.
Any idea on why using dhcp doesn't work more automatically and more easily and why I keep losing the connection? I've run into this problem before with this laptop at other hotels that used wired ethernet. Wireless dhcp works as expected.
Rick B.
Dumb question - is the hotel using some type of proxy server? I only have limited experience with this, but I remember being required to fill out some information on a local web page before being able to access the Internet. Then again, this was before they started offering free Internet access.
Mikkel
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 10:12 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Dumb question - is the hotel using some type of proxy server? I only have limited experience with this, but I remember being required to fill out some information on a local web page before being able to access the Internet. Then again, this was before they started offering free Internet access.
Last hotel I was at worked that way. Before anything worked - I had to open a browser window, which was redirected to their home page - and agree to the terms of usage.
This was the case with wired and the wireless that they offered.
Make sure your browser allows javascript - the place I was at used javascript in their agreement page thingy. So if you have a firefox extension that only allows it for specified sites, or you have it disabled, you may need to adjust your browser settings.
The wired one only made me agree once a day - but if I changed mac address (attached another computer), it expired the old mac address and made me agree with the new one.
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 09:26 -0400, RICHARD wrote:
I'm using FC4 on a Dell Inspiron 2200 and connecting through the wired ethernet port. I connect all the time through this port at work and also connect wirelessly without problem. When I try to connect using the wired ethernet port using eth0 at a hotel using the gui interface, it connects sort of but I cannot view web pages or do much. I can see that I'm assigned an ip (I'm using dhcp) and I can guess at the gateway ip and the dns ip. If I create a route to the gateway (either using the route command or using the network gui) and enter the dns ip, I can then surf web pages, use ssh, etc. The only problem is I have to re-activate the connection frequently.
Any idea on why using dhcp doesn't work more automatically and more easily and why I keep losing the connection? I've run into this problem before with this laptop at other hotels that used wired ethernet. Wireless dhcp works as expected.
From your description it is very simple.
The hotel network is not set up the same on the wired side as it is on the wireless side.
You need to complain to them and get them to fix the wired side so DHCP works the same as it does on the wireless side. It would be good business for them to do so, and they will (usually) recognize that once they know the problem exists. File the complaint at the corporate office for the hotel chain.
You say this is at several hotels, and the fix will be the same for each. If there are several for the same chain you can identify, a single complaint may get them all taken care of, although, one complaint per hotel would catch more attention.
Rick B.
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