Need advice to upgrade

[Jim Gettys]

My memory is that you may have one of the two known access point types
with which we have problems, due to the chip/firmware used in that
access point (note the pre-N designation).  Michailis will know for
sure, and it's probably recorded in our Trac system.

Due to the very small population of those routers, (if my memory is
indeed correct) we're unlikely to explicitly try to fix it.
                                - Jim


On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:09 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just received my XO via the Developers Program. The machine is 
> working nicely, but there is a problem connecting to my wireless router 
> (Belkin Pre-N F5D8230-4) which uses WPA-PSK with AES encription. The XO 
> just asks for the password over and over again. The strange thing that 
> connecting did succeed several days ago so I could request a developer 
> key but since then nothing... (Today I have switched to channel 11 from 
> channel AUTO but no effect.)
> 
> 1. So my question is: do I need to upgade to some more recent FW/build? 
> Is it a known problem with build 656 (stream ship.2) which I have?
> 
> Normally I would not spam the devel list with this support request but I 
> have some more questions:
> 
> 2. I could not find anywhere what the LEDs do on the XO. It can be that 
> I am just stupid or blind but there is an option that it was so evident 
> for every 1CC employee that the explanation was missed somehow. The only 
> thing that I could find is this:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Drawing75c1.jpg
> I can deduce all the LEDs' meaning except the leftmost two:
> a. The lollipop LED is Wireless acquisition. What exactly does it mean?
> b. The tie-fighter LED is Wireless activity. Is it send or receive or 
> both? Is it the wireless chip or the TCP/IP stack or what?
> 
> 3. Some time ago cscott told me how to kill stuff if I want to measure 
> speed.
> telinit 3
> ifconfig msh0 down
> ifconfig eth0 down
> After that the lollipop and tie-figher are both blinking randomly (and I 
> got msh0: link becomes ready message to the console). Does it still 
> switches off things? If not what should I use?
> 
> 4. How is the rebasing on FC9 is going?
> I am just asking because sooner or later I will finish the Geode docu 
> and will start to develop drivers. Since I am not a Linux guru, I could 
> not setup my FC7 VirtualPC image to compile the kernel, I was able only 
> to write kernel modules with FC8. So if it is possible, I would avoid 
> fighting the kernel build process on FC6 or FC7 and so I would like to 
> know what to expect?
> 
> 5. What image should I upgrade to? What is that "faster build"?
> I currently only using the text-mode console so it is not a problem for 
> me if no activity works or something like that (if the wireless works).
> 
> Thank you!
> 
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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
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