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

[ian douglas]

Steve / Brenda,

Are there any solid instructions yet on getting GPRS data working?

-id


steve wrote:
>  Brenda,
> 
>    get the instructions for using WIFI on freerunner posted to the wiki.
> 
>    Michael assist.
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of ian douglas
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 4:32 PM
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> 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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