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[Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?



Another option would be to figure out how to fake the browser
authentication with curl or wget, so you can script it. I did this a few
months ago for a phpbb forum.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:16 AM, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> I recently became the proud owner of a Roku 3 box.  Very happy with it
> minus one or two small details.  For grins, I brought it with me on
> vacation, and immediately ran into the problem that the hotel wifi
> requires an authentication page be filled out, which the Roku can't do
> since it doesn't have a browser.
>
> Googling around on my laptop for a while, I've seen the following
> solutions for this problem, some of which involve doing things with my
> Linux laptop (Kubuntu 13.10 currently):
>
> 1) Change my laptop's MAC address temporarily to that of the Roku,
> authenticate, then try to connect with the Roku.  Sounds reasonable,
> except that it didn't work.  Not sure if I didn't change the mac address
> right.  Might have to retry this, as it's the option that doesn't
> require more hardware.  I found conflicting instructions on how to do
> this on the command line, and every single page that talks about Network
> Manager shows different options, since it changes so much and is
> different betweek KDE and Gnome, etc.
>
> 2) Add a USB WiFi stick onto my laptop and set it up as a
> router/repeater/whatever: I already have one, so nothing to buy but I
> would have to bring it with me.  Don't have it right now so I couldn't
> try it out, but here too I found lots of incomplete or unclear info.  If
> there's a straightforward way to do this, please let me know.  If I need
> to upgrade to the latest Kubuntu I'll do that.
>
> 3) Pick up a travel router and use it to NAT.  I see differing
> information on whether the hotel network will see one MAC address or
> each device's MAC address. This option really only works if the hotel
> has wired internet (the hotel I stay at the most does).  But apparently
> you have to run it in a specific mode that not all support, but I
> couldn't find a consistent name for that mode, other than "Bridged isn't
> what you want".  Some pages mentioned that some units can go "wifi to
> wifi" with half the bandwidth.  I'll have to find that link.  Maybe it
> does sending and receiving on different channels or something like
> that.  I would be OK with spending money on this if need be, and I knew
> it would work.  I also have a WRT54G I'm not using that I could test it
> out with before buying something smaller.
>
> Did I miss any options?
>
> Does anyone have recent info on how to do any of these?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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