wireless troubles, part 1: unencrypted AP

[Pascal Scheffers]

Yes, just saw it on the mailing list. With a USB mouse, I'm back in  
business.

WPA I'll ignore, for now.

- Pascal.

On 12 nov 2007, at 22:31, Kim Quirk wrote:

> Pascal,
> We don't officially support WPA, as in we will not be working fixing  
> issues associated with that until sometime after Dec1 (Update.1).
>
> The bug about not connecting to an AP, is actually been found to be  
> multiple clicks when you hit the button on the touchpad. Not sure of  
> the root cause for this bug... but if you use a USB mouse, you will  
> not get the multiple click behavior and you will be able to connect  
> to unencrypted and WEP enabled APs.
>
> I believe we will see many other problems with double instead of  
> single clicking (liek with the WEP key enter box)... so I expect  
> they will all be fixed at once with the double click fix.
>
> It might be worth waiting for the next release to file more bugs in  
> this area... hopefully some of them will just go away.
>
> Kim
>
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 3:19 PM, Pascal Scheffers <pascal at scheffers.net>  
> wrote:
>
> No, I did not file a trac bug, yet.
>
> Apart from these two, I am also having trouble with my WPA network.  
> It plain refuses to accept my key, I click OK and then nothing  
> happens, and nothing special is seen in /var/log/messages either.  
> The cancel button doesn't work either, only (repeatedly) clicking  
> the 'x' button on the top-right of the dialog makes it go away...  
> I've seen this for a while now, all the way back to joyride 20x
>
> Shall I file a bug for that too?
>
> Regards,
>
> - Pascal.
>
> On 12 nov 2007, at 20:51, Kim Quirk wrote:
>
>> Did anyone write up a trac bug?
>>
>> Also, Please add quick notes for really broken things here:
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes
>>
>> (and reference the bug. In this case it is a blocking bug for  
>> update.1)
>>
>> Alex - said he will log this bug...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Kim
>>
>> On Nov 12, 2007 2:37 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta < sayamindu at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 20:34 +0100, Pascal Scheffers wrote:
>> > I installed joyride-258 on my B4 with firmware Q2D04, and my  
>> wireless
>> > doesn't function anymore.
>> >
>> > Problem 1:
>> > I cannot connect to my completely open, unencrypted access point  
>> 'XO'.
>> > The AP is a Linksys BEFW11S4, other computers can and will  
>> connect to
>> > it.
>> >
>>
>> I can confirm this - I'm trying to connect to an ancient Dlink  
>> 802.11b
>> router (completely open), and it is not working.
>> Warm regards,
>> Sayamindu
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>> http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings
>>
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