My guess is you arent using the right type of board the aforementioned CP2112 board is the one used by everyone to do a battery reset using the batterykiller software (google gets you the software), you only need 3 wires SDA SCL and ground...
Thank you once again for your advice. You say:
"It seems that the only way you can get round this is to either use a friends wifi or find somewhere that has wifi that just requires a password and has no webpage login script, cafe's usually have...
Well thats good to know
Yes it will show wifi connected, you are connected to the hotspot but until you login via a webpage you wont be authorised to use the wifi itself, their are no company hotspots that i know of that allow instant use...