Connecting to public wifi hotspots

[JD]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:

> JD wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >     On 17 February 2013 01:49, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >     > NM does indeed connect, sets up the default route and populates
> >     > /etc/resolv.conf and assigns an ip address to my wifi interface
> wlan0.
> >
> >     What do you mean "sets up the default route and populates
> >     /etc/resolv.conf"?  Mine does not touch resolv.conf.  Have you been
> >     playing with your network setup or is it as installed?
> >
> > It is the job of NM to do that!!!
> > If yours does not, then it is not the default NM configuration for your
> > interface.
>
> Indirectly - NM should invoke resolvconf to do the actual editing.
> This is, I know, a technicality but I suspect this is a thread that's
> likely to get less friendly and more pedantic...
>
> --
> Avi


But that does not appear to be the issue,
since I can booth my windows machine and after the wifi decales itself
connected (i.e. ip address acquired, default route and nameservers set),
I can then open the browser, which does NOT directly go to my home page
(google), but opens the local hotspot's web page to agree to terms of use,
towhich one agrees) and now one can browse and use the internet.
I can confirm that the values shown on windows when I invoke
ipconfig /all in a command window, are identical to those
I see in Linux when I run
ifconfig wlan0
and
route -n
and
cat /etc/resolv.conf

So resolv.conf is not my issue here.
It could be that the Linuc/Ubuntu Firefox may be the guilty party
by refusing to be re-directed to the hotspot's web page ????
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