Wifi connection to hotspot with Gateway Web Page Login problem
Hi,
I am at a hotel and I want to connect to the hotel wifi hotspot with my macbook pro.
In order to access the internet I should get a gateway web page in Safari or Firefox to type in my login and password.
Unfortunately, Airport is on and detects the wifi and connects to it perfectly but I only get a blank page in Safari and Firefox so I can't login...
Let me state that I can connect to the hotspot perfectly with my iphone and with windows 7 (bootcamp) and the gateway page loads without a problem.
The problem is in snow leopard.
Here's what I've done to try to fix it but in vain.
I flushed the DNS cache in terminal
I deleted the Airport connection in Network Preferences, I deleted all my previously saved wifi hotpots and recreated a new Airport connection with a new name. (It discovers the network, connects to it but still a blank page).
When I click advanced with my connection on to the hotel hotspot, I can see the domain suffix, the gateway address, the ip that is assigned to me.
Btw the osx firewall is completely disabled, Netbarrier X5 is also completely disabled. I can ping the gateway without a problem.
I tried rebooting with command option p r (didn't help)
I tried deleting the folder Library/preferences/systemconfiguration to reset the network settings
I deleted all the logins saved in my keychain
I did a reset and safari that didn't work
It's not the hardware since I can connect with windows 7 in bootcamp.
I can connect to other wifi networks (no web gateway login though).
Nothing is working... This is not a mac issue since I have collegues with the same macbook and osx 10.6.2 setup that connect to the hotspot hence why it's driving me crazy... It's not a hotspot issue since it's working with everyone, my iphone, bootcamp, etc...
I'm pretty good with figuring out solutions to windows problems but I've been a mac user for only a year. I might have forgotten or simply be unaware of other things that can be done to fix this issue.
I am at a total lost and so I need you mac gurus to help me because I'm here for a week and all my stuff is on the mac side so using the bootcamp partition is a no go for me.
TY in advance !
I am at a hotel and I want to connect to the hotel wifi hotspot with my macbook pro.
In order to access the internet I should get a gateway web page in Safari or Firefox to type in my login and password.
Unfortunately, Airport is on and detects the wifi and connects to it perfectly but I only get a blank page in Safari and Firefox so I can't login...
Let me state that I can connect to the hotspot perfectly with my iphone and with windows 7 (bootcamp) and the gateway page loads without a problem.
The problem is in snow leopard.
Here's what I've done to try to fix it but in vain.
I flushed the DNS cache in terminal
I deleted the Airport connection in Network Preferences, I deleted all my previously saved wifi hotpots and recreated a new Airport connection with a new name. (It discovers the network, connects to it but still a blank page).
When I click advanced with my connection on to the hotel hotspot, I can see the domain suffix, the gateway address, the ip that is assigned to me.
Btw the osx firewall is completely disabled, Netbarrier X5 is also completely disabled. I can ping the gateway without a problem.
I tried rebooting with command option p r (didn't help)
I tried deleting the folder Library/preferences/systemconfiguration to reset the network settings
I deleted all the logins saved in my keychain
I did a reset and safari that didn't work
It's not the hardware since I can connect with windows 7 in bootcamp.
I can connect to other wifi networks (no web gateway login though).
Nothing is working... This is not a mac issue since I have collegues with the same macbook and osx 10.6.2 setup that connect to the hotspot hence why it's driving me crazy... It's not a hotspot issue since it's working with everyone, my iphone, bootcamp, etc...
I'm pretty good with figuring out solutions to windows problems but I've been a mac user for only a year. I might have forgotten or simply be unaware of other things that can be done to fix this issue.
I am at a total lost and so I need you mac gurus to help me because I'm here for a week and all my stuff is on the mac side so using the bootcamp partition is a no go for me.
TY in advance !
MacBook Pro (early 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.2)
