Can't Get Public Sign in Page?

[PhysicistSarah]

I can't seem to find the public wi-fi page when I connect to a public wifi router or access point.

I've tried searching for the gateway and going to that using

ip a

, or the

route

command (which usually turns up 192.168.1.1), but this doesn't give me the page.

I also tried

sudo dhclient

, but it gave some error about already existing that I don't remember right now.

I'll try to get it later, but it's on a device that someone else has right now and I don't have access to it.

I'll try to acquire it later.

What are the usual fixes for this? I've searched a lot of askubuntu and all of the solutions I've tried have been unsuccessful.

Thanks!

[claydoh]

It is not a Linux issue, it is a crappy wifi issue.
Some public wifi login captive portals use http instead of https, and that won't work sometimes. Browsers these days actually force an https connection, and those poorly implemented wifi networks don't have an https login page. I myself have seen this, but mainly on Chrome OS, which simply refuses to work with these particular portals.
A workaround is to visit http://neverssl.com/ in your browser when you need to access the login page. You may have to have any open tabs closed, but I never had to do so during my recent travels.

This has a good explanation of this
https://www.howtogeek.com/311015/wha...wi-fi-network/
This is a common problem for any device, on any OS.

[oshunluvr]

Firefox seems to handle this better than Chrome. I travel a lot and in many hotels I have to log in using Firefox then open Chrome.

[PhysicistSarah]

I don't think that this is the issue.

I connect to the hotel wifi and it doesn't offer the sign in page.

Then, while connected to the wifi, I open firefox and type in http://neverssl.com/, and no dice.

I think it's something to do with the system because on my laptop that I usually use, I get offered the sign in page, and I'm running basically the same thing (Kubuntu 19.04, whereas my friend's computer runs Kubuntu 18.04 LTS).

I also ran a ping test using

ping 8.8.8.8

and got back

Operation Not Permitted

[oshunluvr]

What you've described is exactly what I experience except when I use Firefox, a little box shows the the upper right corner of the browser window when the attempt is made to access a webpage that proclaims "Click here to sign in" or some similar nonsense.

I was in DC this week at a Marriott and not one single Marriott hotel I've stayed at (that would be about 20 a year for the last 7 years - yes, I'm platinum elite whatever...) offers the login when I'm using chrome. Timely enough, I took my new KDEneon laptop with me that only had chrome installed. My phone logged into the wifi - with the accompanying web browser based sign-in - no problem but I could not get my laptop to spit out the sign-in page. So I enabled my phone hotspot, installed Firefox on my laptop, and attempted to gain access with my laptop using Firefox - and it offered the sign-on immediately upon opening. For sure, Marriott web services sign-on is crippled.

You might try this (I haven't 'cause I just learned of it); enter 192.168.1.1, 127.1.1.1, 1.1.1.1, or http://localhost in your browser address bar, and you might get the default login page to load.

It's always possible you're experiencing something different, but it's worth a try.