Re: Laptop Connects to WAP, But Cannot Access 'Net [FIXED]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:

> This sounds familiar. Connect to wifi then ifconfig eth0 down ... does it
> work then? Something to do with 2 default gateways? Not sure if that's
> your problem but I have that one anytime I visit my parents.

Srdjan, et al.:

   BINGO! Even though eth0 is not RUNNING (and wlan0 is), it interferred with
getting past the WAP.

   As root, I ran 'ifconfig eth0 down', invoked firefox, tried to load a page
and was sent to the WEBbeans.com T&C page. Entered the password and got
access. Whew!

   Of the 7 portables I've had (including an older Sony Vaio) this is the
first to have this issue. Because it never was an issue it didn't occur to
me to look at this solution.

   Now I need a script to check if wlan0 is RUNNING and, if so, take down
eth0. It will run in /etc/rc.d/rc.local as the last command.

Many thanks to all of you,

Rich