[QtExtended] Latest and greatest, progress mail 12

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:11:47 -0600
Ori Pessach <opessach at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> Well, WiFi certainly doesn't work for me. As I said, I tried two
> different APs so far.
> 
> One of them didn't connect at all (that's my home AP, using WPA2.) The
> other, an open network, wouldn't set the DNS server.

if you use encrypted wifi, make sure you have the needed modules for
your kernel, that's beyond qtopia itself.
 
> Any pointers on how to start debugging this?

At first, make sure you have the following file present on your phone
(it should be automatically generated):
/home/root/Settings/Network/wireless/eth0
The content of that file should contain something like this for an
open network:

WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_ESSID="my_network_SID_name"
WIRELESS_AP=""
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CHANNEL=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE=NONE
WIRELESS_WEP_PHRASE=""
WIRELESS_KEY_0=
WIRELESS_KEY_1=
WIRELESS_KEY_2=
WIRELESS_KEY_3=

Also the file /home/root/Settings/Network/eth0 should exist with the
content
MODE=dhcp

The script that initializes the wireless is
at /opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/bin/lan-network and creates a log
in /tmp/qtopia-network.log.
By default the usb0 interface on the phone gets disabled when you
connect the wireless, but if you comment out the line "ifdown usb0" in
the lan-network script, you can stay connected to your phone via pc-usb
while trying to connect to the wireless. When doing this, you can see
if the dhcp client runs or not ...

Also very important: what kernel are you using?

> At one point, GPS was working (with an older release of QTopia from
> Trolltech.) What's the thinking on that?

I've never gotten gps to work, no matter which distro I tried, so for
now, I accept this.

Franky