Internet access in the 368

[Jim Gettys]

There are many Linksys access points.  What model exactly, please?
                         Thanks,
                                  - Jim


On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 20:29 -0300, Americo Damasceno wrote:
> 
> My router is a "LinkSys" from Cisco.
> 
> I found that it's not only me that have this problem. Look the "Ticket
> 1223":"I was unable to connect to my unencrypted wifi accesspoint
> through the sugar interface. 
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> Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to mesh view, locate access point 
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> 2. click access point, watch it blink 
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> 3. wait result: 1. internet does not connect 
> 
> workarounds needed: 1. Went into developer console, looked
> at /sbin/iwconfig 
> 
> 2. Noticed both msh0 and eth0 are listed as "ad-hoc" and
> essid="olpc-mesh" 
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> 3. Kill networkmanager. 
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> 4. Manually change eth0 to managed 
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> 5. manually change essid to my SSID 
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> 6. manually run dhclient 
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> 7. If still failure, try rmmod usb8xxx and modprobe usb8xxx. 
> 
> This is a pretty big step back. I haven't had this much trouble
> connecting to wifi in a long time. "
> 
> I tried these "solutions" but  they didn't work.
> 
> The other "solution" I found at "Sugar release notes":
> 
> "New networking UI needs documentation 
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>         To choose a network, push the first of the four circular "mesh
>         view" keyboard buttons (or "F1" in an emulator), hover over
>         each triangle until you find the access point you want to
>         associate with, and then click on it. (Note that the access
>         points are color-coded based upon a hash of the AP SSID.
>         Therefore, once you learn the color of your desired access
>         point, you can subsequently find it quickly.) "
>          
> I tried this also but didnt work also.
> 
> May be the 368 is not so "stable" ...
> 
> Americo
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Jim Gettys
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