I bought a Samsung series 3 two weeks ago. It has an Intel Centrino N130 wireless module.
I can't get online when a network requires you to open a proxy page in your browser and sign in / accept the terms (like you often see in coffee shops). I can see that network status is connected. I get a bubble popup that says "click here to open a browser to provide additional information." However if I open a browser window it never loads anything, just sits there indefinitely loading. I have confirmed this behavior on 4 different such networks and had my friends being able connect (so it's not the network).
Opening the connection status and clicking diagnose under Win 7 tells me that the laptop cannot reach the DNS server. Same error in every case.
Looking at the IPV4 properties, I see that both IP Address and DNS server is set to be obtained automatically.
Networks without a login page work just fine whether open or encrypted.
I'm going to download the latest drivers from Intel tonight to see if that helps. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
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Tried flushing DNS, renewing my IP address, all to no avail.
Looks like the culprit is a recent IE9 patch. Firefox works just fine. Farewell IE. Count me a firefox user.
Samsung Series 3 Wireless Issue
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by huai, Nov 2, 2011.