Fast questions (email, GPRS, WiFi...)

[Al Johnson]

There is an unofficial set of instructions at:
  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_wlan
I've added the wpa-conf line to /etc/network/interfaces and it usually works, 
with the caveats at the bottom of that page, and so long as I've dropped usb0 
or otherwise sorted the routing. Any improvement to the methods described 
would be most welcome!

On Saturday 12 July 2008, steve wrote:
>  Brenda,
>
>    get the instructions for using WIFI on freerunner posted to the wiki.
>
>    Michael assist.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of ian douglas
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 4:32 PM
> To: List for Openmoko community discussion
> Subject: Re: Fast questions (email, GPRS, WiFi...)
>
> Diego Fernández Durán wrote:
> >   - Is there any UI to conect using WiFi? and with GPRS?
> >     - Is network-manager been ported?
> >       - The NM backend?
> >       - Anybody is doing an UI for this?
>
> I havne't seen any wifi UI applicaiton yet. I SSH'd into my Freerunner,
> edited /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to alter the essid and key,
> typed "ifup eth0", then unplugged the USB cable, opened a terminal, ran
> "ifconfig usb0 down", opened the browser and navigated just fine.
>
> After rebooting, it seems that usb0 is auto-activated, and while the Wifi
> device is supposedly 'on', it doesn't appear in an "ifconfig" dump ... I
> ran "ifconfig down usb0" and "ifup eth0" and it failed to connect to the
> wifi using my recently-edited wpa_supplicant.conf file.
>
> I'm sure somebody is working on an app to automate this, but they'll have
> to rearrange the priority of routing traffic in the app so a user can
> specify "start up the wifi and use that connect as the default route".
>
> -id
>
>
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