On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:19:00 +0900, William Kenworthy <[email protected]> wrote: > You should flash the uboot as a priority - later uboots have changes > designed to help in the case of a flat battery. > > Forget diversity or any of the gui ways of managing wifi - do it from > the commandline - only way that works even partially reliably :( > > BillK
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 22:59 -0500, Harry L. Lee wrote: >> diversity wifi seems to see no access points. ubuntu and 2007.2 saw >> many including the one 4 feet away. i'm confused >> do i need to go outside or have an antenna for gps? >> i'm still having problems with the power switch. i did NOT flash >> uboot (NOR) would that change anything? >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> Harry L Lee (via gmail) > -- > William Kenworthy <[email protected]> > Home in Perth! Yes, flash the uboot. GPS should work reliably outdoors with a pretty clear view of most of the sky. Once you know that works, then try other locations. For myself, I get indoor fix only in one room of my house, and it takes a long time. If I get a fix outside first it can sometimes keep it once inside, always in that one GPS-friendly room. "iwlist eth0 scan" will show visible APs. I've actually had good results with mofi for finding and connecting to wireless networks - but it offers no way to disconnect... I usually use commandline "ifup eth0", having set up similarly to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wifi#WPA - note that that's not just WPA, wpa_supplicant.conf allows you to define secure and non-secure networks alike, including unsecured 'any' network. Provided you've itemized protected networks correctly and included an unprotected 'any', if you're in range of any viable wifi when you type 'ifup eth0' you will usually connect successfully. Failing that, try 'ifdown eth0' and 'ifup eth0' again. j -- Joel Newkirk http://jthinks.com (blog) http://newkirk.us/om (FR stuff) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
