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Network Troubleshooting

Connecting to captive portals, proxy errors, and wireless interface initialization.

1 min readUpdated: 2026-11-12

Network Troubleshooting

Problem: Captive Portal at Hotels or Cafes

Symptom: Network connects to Wi-Fi, but Tor cannot bootstrap because a web login page is required.

Resolution: NetGuard strictly drops all non-Tor traffic, which intentionally prevents captive portal redirect pages from intercepting cleartext HTTP traffic.

To authenticate through a captive portal:

  1. Open the NetGuard menu (Super + n).
  2. Select Captive Portal Authorization Window.
  3. This opens a strictly isolated, temporary browser window for captive portal login only.
  4. Once completed, NetGuard immediately restores full transparent torification.