Thank you all for your responses. I was able to access the wifi using Opera on the PC - so it's not an IE only thing (but it was a great suggestion) I have no idea how to get to a command line interface, I think I'll need a shell program of some sort, I look forward to investigating this more once I get home and I can perhaps download things from maemo.org. Many thanks Alan -----Original Message----- From: Peter Robinson [mailto:pbrobinson at gmail.com] Sent: Mon 1/15/2007 2:56 AM To: Robson, Alan Cc: maemo-users at maemo.org Subject: Re: [maemo-users] n800 not working at hotel hotspot > I'm at a ramada hotel typing this email into Internet Explorer because for > some reason, although my n800 picks up the hotspot loud and clear, the > browser doesn't seem to redirect to the guest registration page and allow me > to browse. I just get a message "network problem" in a dialog box on the > screen. > > Should I expect this to happen at many hotspots ? How do these things work > anyaway, they seem to hijack your attempt to fetch a home page and redirect > you to a terms-and-conditions acceptance page. The access is free, but you > have to click 'accept' to continue. > > Is there something different I should be doing to make this work - there was > nothing I needed to do differently in my laptop. I see similar issue with my n770 (and always have although it improved when I moved from It-2005 to IT-2006) on local govt provided 'StreetNet'. Basically when you try to connect to a site it redirects to a login page before sending you back to the pages you want to visit. When you 'login' I think it sets up the router/firewall to allow you out for a period of time. It doesn't work overly well on the 770. Peter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070116/cffd5bfd/attachment.htm
