Problem connecting to a certain type of network

[Jsimon04]

Hello,

My university's wireless internet works by directing you to a page to login with our school userid and password. My wireless internet is unable to connect to this type of network. I am able to connect to my wireless router's network just fine using dhcp, and I thought that's how my university's internet works as well. What it does is it detects your MAC address and assigns your access rights according to it. So if you have an unregistered MAC address, you won't be ablt to access the internet until you log in with your username and password (which gives you temporary access). I have a Broadcom chip and am using NDISwrapper with my windows driver. Is there something special I have to do to be able to connect to this type of network? The same problem occurs if I try to plug in with a wire. I would normally be able to log in and access fine on a windows machine, but with linux, it's not picking up any signal.

Thank you,
-Jim-

[thunder]

Sure that NICs works ? Do you hae any problems with accessing other networks ?
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Damian Florczyk
Gentoo/NetBSD development lead

[Jsimon04]

Nope, it works fine for any other network. I'm pretty sure it has to do with how my university assigns IPs and handles network communication.

-Jim-

[feld]

Jim, sniff for another MAC address, change yours, and you're set.
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