Just did some testing with up-to-date 16.04 LTS: 1. Initial state: Wi-Fi enabled, but not connected to any network; ethernet is unplugged.
$ nmcli general STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN disconnected none enabled enabled enabled enabled 2. Connect to a SSID that has captive portal: $ nmcli general STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN connected full enabled enabled enabled enabled This means network-manager has put the state to connected and emits a signal of full connectivity, which makes other applications "think" the device is online with full access to the Internet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/997200 Title: Test for captive portal before putting applications in online mode Status in NetworkManager: Confirmed Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in network-manager source package in Precise: Won't Fix Status in update-manager source package in Precise: Won't Fix Status in network-manager source package in Quantal: Won't Fix Status in update-manager source package in Quantal: Won't Fix Status in network-manager source package in Raring: Won't Fix Status in update-manager source package in Raring: Won't Fix Bug description: When in a hotel there is a often a T&Cs page that is delivered when connecting to the network. Some combination of network manager and update manager (or something else entirely) doesn't seem to be able to handle this, and update are left in a non-working state after not being able to read package headers file. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed May 9 17:27:02 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) IpRoute: default via 10.155.32.1 dev wlan0 proto static 10.155.32.0/19 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.155.38.82 metric 2 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-07 (63 days ago) nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager/+bug/997200/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
