No Internet on a public Wi-Fi

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I’m connected on a public Wi-Fi with a captive portal and I’m unable to reach the router (192.168.0.1). I thought I accidentally blocked this host (with hosts-block), but it’s not the case.

No way to ping the router and a traceroute does nothing. I check the ARP cache and router’s MAC address is correctly listed there, but I don’t know where to dig further. Everything works as expected on my laptop.

Do you have any idea or input how to fix it? It used to work at the beginning and suddenly stopped no reason why.

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It looks like you got banned or there is time limit for usage at captive portal. Try to connect tomorrow or change wlan0 mac address.

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That was the trick! Thanks.

For my future me:

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 hw ether MAC_ADDRESS
ifconfig wlan0 up
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Thx

After changing completely from Fremantle/Harmattan to SFOS I completely forgot about that HW address change possibility (at least on SFOS), as iirc this was not possible on the first device(s)!?

on XA2 it is working

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