Comment 36 for bug 284377

I had this issue with wireless in two hotels I was staying at back in July. One was Radisson in Manchest, NH (http://www.radisson.com/hotels/nhmanch) and the other was a Rodeway near Boston Airport. Both were using the same company to provide their wireless access Safety Net Access (http://www.safetynetaccess.com/). I don't know if this helps any though.

Luckily for me I was dual-booting Windows, and was able to get on wireless through Windows to troubleshoot the issue. They offered ethernet through a wireless-ethernet bridge, but they wanted a $150 deposit to use it, which I wasn't about to do. I hope this might help, as someone may be able to contact Safety Net Access to see what hardware they are using, which may give clues to sort this out. I was running Ubuntu 8.10 at the time, so I cannot confirm if their network took issue with 9.04 or not.

I can confirm that I was able to access the network with iwconfig (and using kismet to view the available networks), but only when I rebooted with NetworkManager disabled. If I even so much as started NetworkManager, nothing short of a reboot -- with NM disabled -- would allow me to connect to that network (shutting NetworkManager back down didn't work, reloading modules didn't work, etc).