[PLUG] Boingo Airport Wifi and Linux?

[Russell Senior]

I fly less than you do, and I don't think I've ever even tried to connect
to Boingo (at least, not for a decade and a half or so).  Were you
associated and just trapped by their captive portal?  It is important to go
to an unencrypted website for the captive portal to work.  These days,
browsers and OS's try to get clever and will try to reach a server of
theirs to see if a captive portal is in the way.  Maybe your browser isn't
clever enough, or maybe you have turned it off for (reasonable) privacy
reasons.  I tend to use the national weather service site.  Nothing they
tell me is very security sensitive.  The NSA probably knows the forecast
already anyway.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> I passed through Raleigh-Durham (RDU) and Saint Louis (STL)
> airports last week;  both have Boingo Wifi, but I could not
> connect with Firefox, Chrome, or Opera.  I could ping
> 8.8.8.8, but not do anything else else.  I had insufficent
> time in the airports to do extensive tests.  PDX works fine.
> This is on a laptop running a somewhat older 32 bit distro.
>
> Boingo's website points to a supposed 2009 tuxwire article
> that no longer exists, nor is a copy on archive.org.  I
> won't have much time to debug this the next time I fly
> into a Boingo-infested airport.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem recently, or know of a
> cure?  I suspect PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard
> and Chair), but I would appreciate a clue about this
> specific problem.  Many airports are Boingo-ridden, and
> I may have a pressing need someday.
>
> Keith
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