Fast questions (email, GPRS, WiFi...)
Yaroslav Halchenko
site-openmoko.org at onerussian.com
Tue Jul 15 06:51:46 CEST 2008
wow... someone (at best original author) should simply create a project
within openmoko.org for those openmokoscripts and see if it could be
improved even further or simply polished enough so it is easily
installable from the repository with 1 line instead of 8 step
directions. But viva to DocTomoe for crafting and to papa-piet for
sharing the finding ;-)
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, papa-piet wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> check out that one:
> http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=295#p2956
> Peter K.
> aka papa-piet
> find me at
> 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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