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« Reply #30 on: May 23, 2018, 11:02:32 am »
I know this is the first release but its not that much usable for everyday use i hope a updated revision is out soon.

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« Reply #31 on: May 25, 2018, 08:13:35 am »
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Gretch - We changed our kernel so that it doesn't use F11/12 for the lid switch:
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@Adam, am one the « your-Gemini-pda-production-started-May-2 » guy. Super glad that you started Gemian up.

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« Reply #32 on: May 25, 2018, 08:59:36 am »
Would greatly appreciate it if anyone could please assist with the issue of my not being able to connect to the guest WiFi network at my workplace location.

Please see posts 30 - 31 on page 2 of this thread.

It is very frustrating to not be able to have internet connection on my Gemini on Monday - Friday, 8 - 10 hours a day!

If I can't figure this out soon, I might have to sell Gemini.

So, any help will be truly appreciated greatly!

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« Reply #33 on: May 25, 2018, 12:25:21 pm »
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Would greatly appreciate it if anyone could please assist with the issue of my not being able to connect to the guest WiFi network at my workplace location.

Please see posts 30 - 31 on page 2 of this thread.

It is very frustrating to not be able to have internet connection on my Gemini on Monday - Friday, 8 - 10 hours a day!

If I can't figure this out soon, I might have to sell Gemini.

So, any help will be truly appreciated greatly!

Mark

At some point in the process of evaluating a problem it can be useful to consider what works.

Are you dual booting Debian and Android?  If so, try connecting with Android.  If that works, the hardware is good and it's a Debian setting issue.  If Android doesn't work, then there may be some weird hardware incompatibility between your Gemini and the particular access point or model that you are trying to connect to.

I have seen it before where a device works on every wireless access point but one - and that one access point connected to everything else fine.

I initially had issues connecting my Gemini to my work network.  I tried various settings, etc - no good.  Then on a whim I tried to connect in another area of the building using the default settings - all good.  Once connected and authenticated on the far access point, it now works on the near access point.  Try forgetting the network, go to near a different access point and try again?
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« Reply #34 on: May 25, 2018, 01:09:18 pm »
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Would greatly appreciate it if anyone could please assist with the issue of my not being able to connect to the guest WiFi network at my workplace location.

Please see posts 30 - 31 on page 2 of this thread.

It is very frustrating to not be able to have internet connection on my Gemini on Monday - Friday, 8 - 10 hours a day!

If I can't figure this out soon, I might have to sell Gemini.

So, any help will be truly appreciated greatly!

Mark

At some point in the process of evaluating a problem it can be useful to consider what works.

Are you dual booting Debian and Android?  If so, try connecting with Android.  If that works, the hardware is good and it's a Debian setting issue.  If Android doesn't work, then there may be some weird hardware incompatibility between your Gemini and the particular access point or model that you are trying to connect to.

I have seen it before where a device works on every wireless access point but one - and that one access point connected to everything else fine.

I initially had issues connecting my Gemini to my work network.  I tried various settings, etc - no good.  Then on a whim I tried to connect in another area of the building using the default settings - all good.  Once connected and authenticated on the far access point, it now works on the near access point.  Try forgetting the network, go to near a different access point and try again?

Thank you for your help, Grench!

Good point about checking with Android....

I am dual booting, so, just checked with Android and I can get to the login page OK.

So, clearly there's an issue with Debian setup. Was assuming it relates to something with Connman, the program that is included in the Debian image file, that manages WiFi connections.

I will try your suggestion to try and connect in other part of building. The signal is not the strongest in my own office.

Will report back after I try other locations.

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« Reply #35 on: May 25, 2018, 01:37:04 pm »
Tried in area close to access point, but still won't connect to the login page....

Still get same error message that the page is unreachable.

ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE


Dang......


 


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« Reply #36 on: June 05, 2018, 10:06:49 am »
Any other suggestions regarding connecting to my workplace guest WiFi network with captive portal login?

As noted in posts above, I can connect OK when using Android. Problem is not being able to get to the login page when using Debian with Connman.

Would really like to get this solved, as I spend most of my time during the week at the office, so, would be great to be able to connect to internet while I am here.

Thank you.

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« Reply #37 on: June 05, 2018, 11:41:02 am »
Just tried ping and got:

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$ sudo ping -c 4 8.8.8.8

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84 bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=21.5 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=20.4 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=23.2 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=28.2 ms

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004 ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 20.433/23.365/28.278/3.012 ms


Seems like I'm able to reach internet.....so, why can't I get to login page????
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« Reply #38 on: June 08, 2018, 10:21:50 am »
Additional info regarding Connman and internet connection issue....

When I look at the Details tab screen in Connman, under heading Name Servers, it shows

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Name Servers
8.8.4.4
8.8.8.8


I clicked Configuration button and deleted the numbers and tried connecting again.

Still can't get to login page.

When I looked at the Details tab screen again, it shows the numbers (as shown above) again.

Can someone please assist?

This is driving me nutz.....and makes having the Gemini not useful.

Thanks,

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« Reply #39 on: June 08, 2018, 10:36:52 am »
An alternative option to try is to flip to NetworkManager.

If you want to try this something along the lines of:

sudo apt-get install network-manager network-manager-gnome plasma-nm

Switch from connman to NetworkManager (this may actually have been done by the above install, but just in case, and if you want to switch back you can swap the enable/disable to reverse it):

sudo systemctl stop connman
sudo systemctl disable connman
sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

reboot to clear out any lingering connman configured bits and bobs

lxqt-menu -> Preferences -> Network Connections

Add new wifi etc.

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« Reply #40 on: June 08, 2018, 11:06:30 am »
Thanks for your help, Adam!

Only thing is that I can't connect to internet now, so, can't install NetworkManager....

I will try to go somewhere at lunch today that has free wifi and see if I can connect to their network.

If so, will install NetworkManager and then try at office again.

Otherwise, will have to wait until this weekend to install and then try at office again on Monday.....

So it goes...
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« Reply #41 on: June 08, 2018, 12:02:18 pm »
Went to a place that has free wifi....

I was able to get to their login page and connect to network!

Installed NetworkManager....


Came back to office and tried to connect to my company guest network.

Still no go......    

I now get this error message in browser:

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This site can't be reached

The webpage at http://neverssl.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED


Any other suggestions???

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« Reply #42 on: June 08, 2018, 12:32:03 pm »
All seems a bit strange, so going back to the beginning, we got you to try with D9 on another laptop, and you said that worked. Can you go through/check the config on both and let us know what is different.

i.e. I figured perhaps you'd used NetworkManager on your laptop rather than connman, so thats why I suggested that.

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« Reply #43 on: June 08, 2018, 12:34:40 pm »
Oh if you just have name resolution failure then check your /etc/resolv.conf if empty/absent pop the usual default you mentioned before of nameserver 8.8.8.8 (I had thought that the reboot would make that bit work)

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« Reply #44 on: June 08, 2018, 01:25:21 pm »
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Oh if you just have name resolution failure then check your /etc/resolv.conf if empty/absent pop the usual default you mentioned before of nameserver 8.8.8.8 (I had thought that the reboot would make that bit work)

Thanks for your continued help....

Tried to look at resolv.conf, but it wasn't found....

Looked inside /etc and saw resolv.conf, but it was in shown in red.

Did

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$ ls -al

lrwxrwxrwx  1  root  root      24   Nov    3   2016  resolv.conf  -> /run/conman/resolv.conf


Nothing shown in /run/connman.....

What do I do now?

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