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

[papa-piet]

Hi Ian,
check out that one:
http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=295#p2956


Peter K.
aka papa-piet
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http://freeyourphone.de


ian douglas schrieb:
> 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-----
>> 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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