On Saturday 18 November 2006 20:54, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Folks,
> Some weeks ago I broke down and purchased a month sub to one of
> the wifi services, I figured that $21/mo was pretty reasonable since I
> travel so much, it is a lot less than the 4.99 to 9.99 that you pay
> for a one shot deal. So I get to Houston G. Bush, the wifi provider is
> Sprint, I go to try to log in and of course I am presented with a
> 'roaming partner selection' I select the provider I am using and
> attempt to log in, I get a 'roaming not supported' message, call my
> provider and they ask me what browser I am running, I told them
> firefox, they told me that Sprint only allows logins with I.E. and
> that they had complained about it but Sprint did nothing. I have used
> them at other airports indeed I did the purchase using Firefox on my
> Linux laptop, the Boingo guy lauged and told me he ran Linux too, but
> that they had been unable to get Sprint to fix their system to allow
> other browsers, I thinked him and hung up and called Sprint, and sure
> enough, if you do have have I.E you can not use their service. Once
> you log in you can use any browser you want but you must have I.E. or
> so they say.
>
> Now is there any workaround for this one? The Sprint turkey told me
> that they did not support Linux (it's the BROWSER stupid) I told him
> it was not the OS it was the browser, and that I was sure able to get
> on their stupid signin web page and the silly airport web page they
> route you to. Of course that was like talking to a wall because his
> next response was they did not support Mozilla browsers.... If any
> of you travel and have run into this and know of a work around I
> sure would like to know what it is. The Boingo guy told me that he
> had tried all of the other browsers on a Linux box and a Mac and
> only IE works.
>
So ignorant isn't it??? Sigh !!
Did you try spoofing IE to Sprint?
Bob S.
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