Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Kai-Martin k...@familieknaak.de writes: In SHR WiFi is powered on and off through FSO's Resource handling.This is usually set to 'auto' so it will be powered up if an app requests the WiFi resource, and shut down when nothing is requesting it. Does wmiconfig -i eth0 --power maxperf interfere

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-24 Thread Al Johnson
For the bits Paul didn't cover: On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Kai-Martin wrote: On 03/22/2010 01:40:06 PM, Al Johnson wrote: Connectivity, or direct through dbus with mdbus2, dbus-send or similar. How would I do this? ( I miss man pages on my freerunner ;-) mdbus2 -s

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Kai-Martin k...@familieknaak.de writes: Ok, why not. I am only half fluent with the necessesary commands. On my laptop I used to call wpa_supplicant with some fancy config file. The wlan device to talk to seems to be eth0, right? Yes but you can change that to more logical wlan with udev.

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Neil Jerram
On 21 March 2010 03:21, Kai-Martin k...@familieknaak.de wrote: The wlan device to talk to seems to be eth0, right? Correct. Most of the time when I check with ifconfig, there is no decice eth0. Presumably this is, because the wlan chip is xswitched off. Yes. How do I manually switch the

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Kai-Martin k...@familieknaak.de writes: Sorry cant help with wifi - I find that mokoconnect and similar gui's are too flaky - manual is more reliable. Ok, why not. I am only half fluent with the necessesary commands. On my laptop I used to call wpa_supplicant with some fancy config file.

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Richy
What works best for me is the following: edit /etc/network/interfaces iface eth0 inet manual wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf down wpa_action eth0 down iface homeNet inet dhcp /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this:

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Kai-Martin
On 03/21/2010 06:57:34 AM, Paul Fertser wrote: Exactly. Just add an appropriate section to wpa_supplicant.conf, it works for all networks. Assembling bits and pieces from many sites, I got wifi to work -- manually with commands through ssh and still with wake-up issues. This is what I did:

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Kai-Martin
On 03/21/2010 06:57:34 AM, Paul Fertser wrote: Exactly. Just add an appropriate section to wpa_supplicant.conf, it works for all networks. Assembling bits and pieces from many sites, I got wifi to work -- manually with commands through ssh and still with wake-up issues. This is what I did:

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Kai-Martin k...@familieknaak.de wrote: I just found the wiki page on wlan connectivity:        http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wifi However, the commands there assume a working eth0 device. So I have to deal with that first. Here are a few scripts that I use.

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Kai-Martin wrote: On 03/21/2010 03:00:52 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: Just a point ... why modules? Because the manual suggested to load the modules in the same section as the image of the kernel and of the image of the root file system. you only need the module

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Kai-Martin k...@familieknaak.de writes: Exactly. Just add an appropriate section to wpa_supplicant.conf, it works for all networks. Assembling bits and pieces from many sites, I got wifi to work -- manually with commands through ssh and still with wake-up issues. Add this one to your

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Kai-Martin
On 03/22/2010 01:40:06 PM, Al Johnson wrote: In SHR WiFi is powered on and off through FSO's Resource handling.This is usually set to 'auto' so it will be powered up if an app requests the WiFi resource, and shut down when nothing is requesting it. Does wmiconfig -i eth0 --power maxperf

getting started with wlan

2010-03-20 Thread Kai-Martin
Hi. Last week, I bought this used freerunner, version GTA02-A5. I decided to dump the existing install and do a fresh flash of shr. So I followed the directions in http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_User_Manual : Download images from http://build.shr-project.org/shr-testing/images/om-gta02

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 01:28 +0100, Kai-Martin wrote: Hi. Last week, I bought this used freerunner, version GTA02-A5. I decided to dump the existing install and do a fresh flash of shr. So I followed the directions in http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_User_Manual : Download images from

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-20 Thread Kai-Martin
On 03/21/2010 03:00:52 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: Just a point ... why modules? Because the manual suggested to load the modules in the same section as the image of the kernel and of the image of the root file system. you only need the module step if you are changing from the matching