Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 25.12.2008, at 09:19, John Gilmore wrote:

>> along similar lines an issue I have been seeing with the network  
>> screen
>> (but haven't gotten around to reporting). my home access point is
>> encrypted and sometimes I can reconnect to it without a problem, but
>> sometimes it acts as if it's never been connected to before (asking  
>> me for
>> the encryption key). I've had to resort to printing the key and  
>> keeping it
>> with me (not convienient or good for security). is this a known  
>> issue? is
>> there anything I can do to help track down the issue?
>
> I see this all the time, too.  There are some known bugs with  
> encrypted
> access points, but I don't know if this one is clearly reported.   
> Wireless
> is *so* hard to debug, the programmers can never get to the location  
> where
> it actually fails repeatably -- and when it's failing, the laptop is  
> by
> definition off the net, so they can't login to it remotely to debug  
> it.
> Very frustrating.  Access points with encryption have *never* worked
> reliably on the XO.  I guess the programmers in Cambridge had better
> turn off their open access point, or it'll never be solved.
>
> Like the memory freezeups, I just assume that everyone is seeing this
> and nobody cares to work on it.


More likely the actual deployments do not use encrypted APs so this  
indeed would not be top priority. It's annoying nevertheless, though I  
seem to have adopted a style of operation so it does happen very  
rarely anymore. There is at least one ticket open:

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3554

- Bert -