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I cannot log in to the nbcolympics.com (USA) site on Ubuntu. (I have tried on two computers, with Chromium and Firefox on each.) I choose "Click here to get started", then the site asks for my cable provider. I choose it, enter my password, and it appears to accept it. The next screen that loads again says "Click here to get started". If I click it and choose my provider, it doesn't even ask for my password, it just says signing in and the process repeats. A couple of points:

  1. It works fine on Windows XP.
  2. If I purposely enter a wrong password, it tells me so. This error only occurs if I have the password correct.

Has anyone been able to make it work?

Jorge Castro
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Andy
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As per this post on the Adobe website:

Step One: Install HAL

sudo apt-get install hal

Step Two: Quit your web browser

Step Three: Clean out the Adobe Flash folder:

cd ~/.adobe/Flash_Player
rm -rf NativeCache AssetCache APSPrivateData2

This process worked for me. In my case, I'd been able to go to nbcolympics.com and click the log to begin the verification process, but never given the chance to enter my Comcast credentials. Doing the steps above fixed everything.

Jorge Castro
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user79939
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Firefox 14.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.0.4

I had the indentical problem (the login/password were correct, but it just kept asking me to login again and would never actually play "live" content).

I installed "hal" per the instructions above and IT WORKS.

Note: I am running the Ubuntu in a VM (Vmware) because my Ubuntu workstations are not current enough to run new enough Flash (dependency hell if I try). The only potential issue is competition with other sound players running natively on the workstation. I had to shut down another sound player on the workstation before starting the VM.

!!! Notice that "hal" has been deprecated -- hal is old stuff. Adobe has announced that it is discontinuing support for Flash on Linux, so what do we do in a few months???

Jay
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Try:

  1. Uninstall moonlight 2.0 plugin

  2. Install moonlight 3.0

  3. Play video

Eliah Kagan
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zuberuber
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