Re: Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-03 Thread Patrik Flykt
Hi, On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 11:11 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: There is/was dummy IAP support which you could use here: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/DummyIAP But it accidentally went kaput at some stage. Patrik, what's the status with that? It's still kaput and I have no time allocated

Re: Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-03 Thread Patrik Flykt
Hi, On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 07:10 -0500, ext David Hagood wrote: Outbound packet detected with interface down This has one additional problem: The packets sent to the dummy interface will vanish and not be re-routed to the new interface once it's up. If the packets were meant for DNS,

Re: Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-02 Thread Kalle Valo
ext Mike Cowlishaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While trying to test this on an aeroplane at the weekend -- with Wi-Fi offline, of course -- the browser would not connect to the server. I've since experimented further and find a similar (or the same) problem occurs online if no Wi-Fi connection

Re: Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-02 Thread David Hagood
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 11:11 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: ext Mike Cowlishaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While trying to test this on an aeroplane at the weekend -- with Wi-Fi offline, of course -- the browser would not connect to the server. I've since experimented further and find a similar

Re: Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-02 Thread David Hagood
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 14:48 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: It would take modifications to the kernel - ideally some sort of DBUS message when a packet needs to be routed - but this would remove the need to hook into applications, and allow ANY app to generate a request for connection. Sounds

Re: Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-02 Thread Antonio Gomes
maybe same discussion at http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2007-February/007762.html ? On 5/1/07, Mike Cowlishaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Wiki running on my N800 using the usual configuration (for many applications) of a TCP/IP server running on the local host address

RE: Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-02 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
Hmm, yes, same discussion - thanks. Unfortunately that thread just faded out with no real solution for how to connect to running server on N800 when offline. One suggestion 'rewrite the application' definitely not an option (especially as I've spent two months porting it to N800.). mfc

Re: Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-02 Thread Allan Doyle
On May 2, 2007, at 11:26, Mike Cowlishaw wrote: Hmm, yes, same discussion – thanks. Unfortunately that thread just faded out with no real solution for how to connect to running server on N800 when offline. One suggestion ‘rewrite the application’ definitely not an option (especially as

Re: Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-02 Thread Antonio Gomes
allan, what minimo maemo port version are you running ? On 5/2/07, Allan Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 2, 2007, at 11:26, Mike Cowlishaw wrote: Hmm, yes, same discussion – thanks. Unfortunately that thread just faded out with no real solution for how to connect to running server

Re: Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-02 Thread Allan Doyle
On May 2, 2007, at 13:37, Antonio Gomes wrote: allan, what minimo maemo port version are you running ? That's the funny thing. I was blitzing through a number of things, then reflashed, and wound up not getting back to it before I realized I don't know where I had found the Minimo. If I

Localhost unavailable when wi-fi offline or not connected

2007-05-01 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
Hi, I have a Wiki running on my N800 using the usual configuration (for many applications) of a TCP/IP server running on the local host address (127.0.0.1) and an TCP/IP client on the same device. (In this case an HTTP web server and the Opera browser.) While trying to test this on an aeroplane