Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 23 July 2009, pike wrote:
 Hi

  Is there a way to request WiFi activation from
  FSO straight from the command line ?
 
  Yes, if you search the archive you'll find some mdbus or dbus-send
  examples, or as saied you may use fsoraw.

 Sorry, I found none. I'm sure I just dont
 really know what I'm looking for.

 Anyway, mdbus helped me out:
 alltogether this is my way to
 get wifi from scratch that doesnt

 die every 20 secs :
  # keep the screen alive
  mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage \
  org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy \
  Display enabled
 
  # power up wifi
  mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.odeviced \
  /org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/WiFi \
  org.freesmartphone.Device.PowerControl.SetPower True

This one would be better:
mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage \
org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy \
WiFi enabled

 
  # bounce eth0
  ifdown eth0; ifup eth0
 
   # more custom stuff

 thanks,
 *-pike

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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-23 Thread Aapo Rantalainen
Most of the time I use only one essid, so I have this script to activate wlan:

mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage
org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy WiFi enabled
iwconfig eth0 essid ESSID_NAME
ifup eth0

-Aapo Rantalainen

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om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread pike
Hi

and another one - I have scripts to connect
to my wifi, several ways, it all works, but
only after I activated the wifi driver.

The only way I know how to do that is through
Paroli settings. Is there a way to do it
from the command line ?

thanks,
*-pike

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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:35:25PM +0200, pike wrote:
 and another one - I have scripts to connect
 to my wifi, several ways, it all works, but
 only after I activated the wifi driver.
 
 The only way I know how to do that is through
 Paroli settings. Is there a way to do it
 from the command line ?

One thing you must do, is ifdown usb0 in the command line.

Don't forget to do ifup usb0 if you want usb connectivity again :)
Rui

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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabrar...@ansol.org wrote:
 One thing you must do, is ifdown usb0 in the command line.

 Don't forget to do ifup usb0 if you want usb connectivity again :)
 Rui

are there any other tips for wifi? ive tried monfi and saskia and
still have yet to get a connection at work or home.
so besides this usb0 thing and turning on the wifi radio what other
steps are there?

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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread pike
Hi

 One thing you must do, is ifdown usb0 in the command line.

Or route del default gw 192.168.0.202.

But I've removed the default usb route from /etc/networking/.
I *never* connect outwards through usb. I use a mac.
So I dont have to do that anymore. What I tried to say is,
its all working fine now .. except

I have to 'activate' the wifi driver in paroli first.
Before that, eth0 is just completely non-existant as
a device; ifup,ifdown,iwconfig and friends will just
not see it. eth0 - no such device.

So the question is, what does activate mean
in paroli ? what does it do ?

thanks,
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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:03 PM, pikepike-openm...@kw.nl wrote:
 Hi

[...]
 I have to 'activate' the wifi driver in paroli first.
 Before that, eth0 is just completely non-existant as
 a device; ifup,ifdown,iwconfig and friends will just
 not see it. eth0 - no such device.

That's a feature, not a bug ;)

 So the question is, what does activate mean
 in paroli ? what does it do ?

It talks to FSO to request WiFi activation, FSO will turn on the WiFi.
If your WiFi manager requests the WiFi resource directly to FSO you do
not need to activate the WiFi in paroli.


Nicola

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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread pike
Hi


 are there any other tips for wifi? ive tried monfi and saskia and
 still have yet to get a connection at work or home.
 so besides this usb0 thing and turning on the wifi radio what other
 steps are there?

none of the gui's ever got me a connection.
it's working fine now after doing it manually
a 1000 times and finally wrapping that up in
a shell script today.

How it works manually depends on your setup.

If you're not using wep or wpa (like i dont),
its basicly a combination of the right
/etc/network/interfaces, ifup, ifdown (and
iwconfig to speed it up). ifup should call
udhcpc for you. iwlist is your friend, too.

if you are using wep or wpa, i guess you'd
need to write a wpa_supplicant.

All that is described here
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wireless_Networking

except for how to exactly set up
/etc/network/interfaces.
I figured that out by reading examples...

Indeed, it wasnt easy. For me.

$2c,
*-pike



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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread pike
Hi

 I have to 'activate' the wifi driver in paroli first.
 That's a feature, not a bug ;)
yep

 So the question is, what does activate mean
 in paroli ? what does it do ?
 
 It talks to FSO to request WiFi activation, FSO will turn on the WiFi.
 If your WiFi manager requests the WiFi resource directly to FSO you do
 not need to activate the WiFi in paroli.

OK. I dont really understand that last sentence,
but thats ok :-) I suppose it means f.e. MoFi could
talk to FSO too, if it wanted (perhaps it even
does).

Is there a way to request WiFi activation from
FSO straight from the command line ?

thanks,
*-pike

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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, pikepike-openm...@kw.nl wrote:
 none of the gui's ever got me a connection.
 it's working fine now after doing it manually
 a 1000 times and finally wrapping that up in
 a shell script today.

 $2c,
 *-pike

thanks, but woish! making this:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_WLAN#Sample_wpa_supplicant.conf

will have to wait till i get home. no way im writing that out key by
key on the moko

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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM, pikepike-openm...@kw.nl wrote:
[...]
 It talks to FSO to request WiFi activation, FSO will turn on the WiFi.
 If your WiFi manager requests the WiFi resource directly to FSO you do
 not need to activate the WiFi in paroli.

 OK. I dont really understand that last sentence,
 but thats ok :-) I suppose it means f.e. MoFi could
 talk to FSO too, if it wanted (perhaps it even
 does).

 Is there a way to request WiFi activation from
 FSO straight from the command line ?

Yes, if you search the archive you'll find some mdbus or dbus-send
examples, or as saied you may use fsoraw.

Nicola

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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:28 PM, jeremy jozwikjerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, pikepike-openm...@kw.nl wrote:
 none of the gui's ever got me a connection.
 it's working fine now after doing it manually
 a 1000 times and finally wrapping that up in
 a shell script today.

 $2c,
 *-pike

 thanks, but woish! making this:
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_WLAN#Sample_wpa_supplicant.conf

 will have to wait till i get home. no way im writing that out key by
 key on the moko

There are a lot of GUI WiFi managers available.

I did some WiFi brainstorming for a while, however often WiFi does not
work out of the box on the freerunner, see some considerations on
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/WiFi_Managers

If you are lucky this may work for you, but be aware of it pre-pre-pre
alpha status and bad inclination from the author to complete or
support it :)

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NWA

Regards

Nicola

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Re: om2009 activating wifi

2009-07-22 Thread pike
Hi

 Is there a way to request WiFi activation from
 FSO straight from the command line ?
 
 Yes, if you search the archive you'll find some mdbus or dbus-send
 examples, or as saied you may use fsoraw.

Sorry, I found none. I'm sure I just dont
really know what I'm looking for.

Anyway, mdbus helped me out:
alltogether this is my way to
get wifi from scratch that doesnt
die every 20 secs :

 # keep the screen alive
 mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage \
 org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy \
 Display enabled
 
 # power up wifi
 mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.odeviced \
 /org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/WiFi \
 org.freesmartphone.Device.PowerControl.SetPower True
 
 # bounce eth0
 ifdown eth0; ifup eth0
 
  # more custom stuff


thanks,
*-pike

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