On 25.12.2008, at 09:19, John Gilmore wrote: >> along similar lines an issue I have been seeing with the network >> screen >> (but haven't gotten around to reporting). my home access point is >> encrypted and sometimes I can reconnect to it without a problem, but >> sometimes it acts as if it's never been connected to before (asking >> me for >> the encryption key). I've had to resort to printing the key and >> keeping it >> with me (not convienient or good for security). is this a known >> issue? is >> there anything I can do to help track down the issue? > > I see this all the time, too. There are some known bugs with > encrypted > access points, but I don't know if this one is clearly reported. > Wireless > is *so* hard to debug, the programmers can never get to the location > where > it actually fails repeatably -- and when it's failing, the laptop is > by > definition off the net, so they can't login to it remotely to debug > it. > Very frustrating. Access points with encryption have *never* worked > reliably on the XO. I guess the programmers in Cambridge had better > turn off their open access point, or it'll never be solved. > > Like the memory freezeups, I just assume that everyone is seeing this > and nobody cares to work on it.
More likely the actual deployments do not use encrypted APs so this indeed would not be top priority. It's annoying nevertheless, though I seem to have adopted a style of operation so it does happen very rarely anymore. There is at least one ticket open: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3554 - Bert - _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel