Hi Robert, thanks for the notes. > Regarding WPA support remember you have existing G1G1 users out in > the wild using WPA plus a new G1G1 is scheduled for November time > frame. It is also possible that a deployment or two use WPA.
We aren't going to ship without WPA support, but we also aren't working on improvements to the WPA support we already have. > There are suspend related bugs in 8.2-759. 1.) There is a nasty > suspend related networking bug that requires a hard boot to get > working again. Turn on power management, let the laptop suspend, > (screen dims), and then close the lid. Open the lid again and the > wireless connectivity is dead. Sometimes you have to repeat the > lid closing several times to get the network stack dropped. Seems > to happen the quickest if you have been using the network for a > shared activity such as chat for a while. ( Bug does not seem to > happen if ohmd is logging). Once this happens restarting sugar > will not revive it. I have had to reboot to get wireless working > again. This is #8103, which is fixed in Joyride and will be fixed in 8.2-760 when that's built. > 2.) I noticed in build 757 after opening the lid the system would > attempt to connect to the last network device it had been connected > to. With 759 it looks for a mesh first no matter that you had been > connected to an AP last. It will try the previous AP again, but it'll first cycle through the mesh channels looking for a school server. This was a request from deployment, to make sure that when a laptop arrives from home to school it finds the school server there. The cycle time is unfortunately long: over a minute. If it's enough of an inconvenience, we might consider some mechanism (perhaps a networks.cfg entry) for saying "I don't care about connecting to mesh networks automatically, always prefer APs." > 3.). If the laptop is in suspend, closing the lid does not turn > off the backlight. (I look through the USB port after I close the > lid and the light is still on. ). This is #8137, and is unlikely to be fixed in time for 8.2.0; the workaround is to either wake the machine before closing the lid, or to open and close the lid after the lid close that didn't trigger sleep. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel