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

Brad Pitcher bradpitcher at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 21:08:19 CEST 2008


What do you do at step 5 where the instructions only apply to ASU?
-Brad

Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> 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 ;-)
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> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, papa-piet wrote:
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>> Hi Ian,
>> check out that one:
>> http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=295#p2956
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>> Peter K.
>> aka papa-piet
>> find me at
>> http://freeyourphone.de
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>> ian douglas schrieb:
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>>> Steve / Brenda,
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>>> Are there any solid instructions yet on getting GPRS data working?
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>>> -id
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>>> steve wrote:
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>>>>  Brenda,
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>>>>    get the instructions for using WIFI on freerunner posted to the wiki.
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>>>>    Michael assist.
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>>>> Steve
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>>>> -----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...)
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>>>> Diego Fernández Durán wrote:
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>>>>>   - 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?
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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".
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>>>> -id
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