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Ori Pessach opessach at gmail.com
Sun Jun 7 20:14:54 CEST 2009


I'll have to give this a try the next time I'm near an AP. Mine is 7000
miles away. It has decent range, but nothing approaching 7000 miles.

The kernel is 2.6.24.

--Ori Pessach

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Franky Van Liedekerke
<liedekef at telenet.be>wrote:

> 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
>
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