Connecting to "open" network with terms of service

[wayne1932]

The situation:  No problems connecting to wireless at home, and "some" open networks.  What I mean by open is at hotels, motels, hospitals etc.  Fairly recently I have connected to the wireless networks at Hampton Inns under linux.  My wife is now in the hospital which has "open network for guests."  I can connect to it with WinXP after choosing their network which has no WEP or WPA.  After opening my browser, (firefox with WinXP) a terms of service window opens which I must agree to, after which I can do anything I can do on my home network.  Under PCLOS, I can see the network and connect to it, but opening my browser does not show the terms of service agreement, so I am hung up with no access to the internet. 

My browser shows a 404 window which has a mention of Microsoft IIS (ISS?) I suspect the system may be locked down the the Microsoft way.  At the Hampton inns I was able to see the TOS and get on to the internet with PCLOS. 

Anybody have any suggestions?

[Old-Polack]

The situation:  No problems connecting to wireless at home, and "some" open networks.  What I mean by open is at hotels, motels, hospitals etc.  Fairly recently I have connected to the wireless networks at Hampton Inns under linux.  My wife is now in the hospital which has "open network for guests."  I can connect to it with WinXP after choosing their network which has no WEP or WPA.  After opening my browser, (firefox with WinXP) a terms of service window opens which I must agree to, after which I can do anything I can do on my home network.  Under PCLOS, I can see the network and connect to it, but opening my browser does not show the terms of service agreement, so I am hung up with no access to the internet. 

My browser shows a 404 window which has a mention of Microsoft IIS (ISS?) I suspect the system may be locked down the the Microsoft way.  At the Hampton inns I was able to see the TOS and get on to the internet with PCLOS. 

Anybody have any suggestions?

Absolutely no idea if this would work, but what's to lose? Do you have a Windows VM installed with VBox? Connect from the VM, which actually uses the host's wireless connection, then see if the Linux host is also connected in the process.

[wayne1932]

@O_P Thanks, but No Virtual boxes on this machine, just plain dual boot. 

[Old-Polack]

@O_P Thanks, but No Virtual boxes on this machine, just plain dual boot. 

Got room for a VBox installation?

[ThirdOfSix]

There are systems out there that were developed with tools by those folks at MS that do a check to see if you are connecting using that other browser.

Sometimes you can get on them by having FireFox report to their server that it is that other browser.

I am not trying to be cute, I just never use it and at the moment, I can not remember the name of that other browser.

Anyway, since I do not remember where the setting is in FireFox, I would suggest that you go to the Mozilla help forum for FireFox and ask them.

This ploy may not work but I understand that on some systems it does.

Good luck.

[wayne1932]

3of6.

Thanks

I remember something like that, but I couldn't find it either.  so right now I'm out of luck this time, she gets released from the hospital Thursday PM. 

[ThirdOfSix]

I remembered that the correct terminology is "browser spoofing" and found it with a quick search.

Try this:

 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967

Good luck.

[wayne1932]

I'm not sure what I did, but I got onto the network this morning with FoxFire.   

I THINK what i did was >Edit>Network>Preferences>ConfigureSettings>selected "Use system proxy settings" Anyhow after I had done that I tried to reload myYahoo page and got to the hospital agreement.  So I'm now ON, as Southwest Airlines would say. 

Since my wife goes home today, I may not get a chance to see or try this again this time.  But she comes back in six weeks to get her other knee done so, I'll have a fresh opportunity then.

Thanks guys