Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

I'm sure Birmingham or other deployments in the US will be using encrypted
access.  No US school system would permit an open AP.

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> 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 -
>
>
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