I'll have to give this a try the next time I'm near an AP. Mine is 7000 miles away. It has decent range, but nothing approaching 7000 miles.
The kernel is 2.6.24. --Ori Pessach On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Franky Van Liedekerke <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:11:47 -0600 > Ori Pessach <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Well, WiFi certainly doesn't work for me. As I said, I tried two > > different APs so far. > > > > One of them didn't connect at all (that's my home AP, using WPA2.) The > > other, an open network, wouldn't set the DNS server. > > if you use encrypted wifi, make sure you have the needed modules for > your kernel, that's beyond qtopia itself. > > > Any pointers on how to start debugging this? > > At first, make sure you have the following file present on your phone > (it should be automatically generated): > /home/root/Settings/Network/wireless/eth0 > The content of that file should contain something like this for an > open network: > > WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' > WIRELESS_ESSID="my_network_SID_name" > WIRELESS_AP="" > WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto' > WIRELESS_CHANNEL='' > WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128' > WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE=NONE > WIRELESS_WEP_PHRASE="" > WIRELESS_KEY_0= > WIRELESS_KEY_1= > WIRELESS_KEY_2= > WIRELESS_KEY_3= > > Also the file /home/root/Settings/Network/eth0 should exist with the > content > MODE=dhcp > > The script that initializes the wireless is > at /opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/bin/lan-network and creates a log > in /tmp/qtopia-network.log. > By default the usb0 interface on the phone gets disabled when you > connect the wireless, but if you comment out the line "ifdown usb0" in > the lan-network script, you can stay connected to your phone via pc-usb > while trying to connect to the wireless. When doing this, you can see > if the dhcp client runs or not ... > > Also very important: what kernel are you using? > > > At one point, GPS was working (with an older release of QTopia from > > Trolltech.) What's the thinking on that? > > I've never gotten gps to work, no matter which distro I tried, so for > now, I accept this. > > Franky > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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