Robert, try connecting to wireless in the connectivity menu by scanning for connections. Then, whenever you turn on wifi, use the active connection details to see if it is connected, or just wait ten seconds or so. I agree that it is annoying that it will not auto-start wifi if it is not on. In my mind, if no connection is present, the prompt to select one should appear. It is only if there is a connection that it should not.
On 2/10/11, evelyn weckerly <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Alex and all, > > Well, what has surprised me most is that this upgrade was free. > That matters a lot (smile). I have not yet downloaded it but > will do so soon. > > Evelyn > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Hall <[email protected] > To: bn <[email protected] > Date sent: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:34:04 -0500 > Subject: [Braillenote] ks9.1: initial thoughts > > Hi all, > I have found a few things with 9.1: > > 1. The reset now seems to beep twice, once when the button is > pressed > and once when the unit actually resets. > > 2. During a reset, numbers appear on the right side of the > display. I > guess they are like a percentage of how far along the bn is in > the > booting process but am not sure. > > 3. It is true that, as was said in the presentation, no > "connection > configuration to use" prompt appears. However, this introduces a > rather large bug: if you have wifi off, or for some other reason > cannot get online, the bn will say "the page cannot be displayed" > instead of turning on wifi like it did in previous versions. > > 4. The enter-4-5-6 keystroke in terminal mode, used with iOS > devices > to pass the next keystroke directly to iOS instead of having it > interpreted by keysoft, works well. For example, hit > enter-4-5-6, then > hit space-h. Instead of help coming up, the Home button is > activated. > The only problem here is that this cannot be locked, so you must > press > it every time you want to use a keystroke which keysoft normally > interprets as a command. BTW, the scroll wheel is still not > active in > terminal mode with iOS. > > 5. The apex now acts as a braille terminal for jaws 12 on my > windows 7 > 64-bit machine, and the setup was easy. However, I cannot figure > out > how to use grade 2 entry; everything is in computer braille for > some > reason. This is likely my fault and not a bug, though. Oh, and > the > scroll wheel does indeed work, with the center button being > enter, > scrolling forward seeming to be arrowing down (and scrolling back > arrowing up), and I am not clear on the other four buttons. I > have not > yet figured out how to enter modifier keys or other commands. > > 6. Needless to say, the installation was great. I got the > license and > put it on a thumb drive. I went to the main menu and put in the > drive > and a prompt came up saying to perform a reset to install > licenses or > packages. After the reset, I saw that one license had been > installed. > I then repeated the process with the upgrade file itself. It > took > probably five minutes or so, with the bn telling me which step it > was > on and the percentage. The longest process was the extraction of > the > actual rom image, and that had no progress. My speech and > braille > preferences were used for this display. Once the installation > was done > and the machine had rebooted, it installed some documents and the > manual and it was done. Very slick! > > 7. The ability to action links and view tables in Word files is > really > handy and offers a significantly expanded range of files to the > bn, > whereas before we would have seen an exception message. I am > disappointed that docx support was not included, as that was > promised > for this upgrade back when the apex came out. Hopefully hw will > include this in a future release as a maintenance upgrade for 9.1 > and > it will still be free, but who knows? That is not to say that I > am > disappointed in the upgrade; hw did a wonderful job on the > updated > keyword and it is nice to not have to worry about a document > crashing > the program just because there is a link in it. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
