On 10 Feb 2009, at 23:53, Chris Ball wrote: > Some particular areas we'd like to see testing of: > > * Connecting to encrypted wireless access points. We believe there > are > regressions here that we're trying to understand. The test procedure > is: > - connect to a WEP/WPA AP > - suspend/resume using the power button, see what happens > - reboot, see what happens > > Some hypotheses we're trying to investigate are: > - WEP always works > - WPA works with some percentage chance of success > > You can read more about the wireless testing that's been done > already: > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-February/023096.html > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-February/022993.html
Here's my wireless results for 8.2.1 candidate-800. Tested 6 times in a row for open access, WEP, and WPA, and some misc. comparative runs with an XO running 8.2. Access point is a D-Link DSL-G604T (Wireless ADSL router). Summary: 8.2.1 has regressed relative to 8.2 for WPA access points. You now have to enter the security string; it will fail to associate and prompt you for the security string again; you have to cancel this dialogue; it will start trawling for a mesh; you have to click the AP again; it will now connect. Open access ========== First connection: 4 successful auto associations, 2 times a 2nd click on the AP was required before it would associate. After OS reboot: 5 successful auto associations, 1 failed to re- associate and required clicking the AP. After restart of Sugar UI: 6 successful auto associations. After sleep: 5 successful auto associations, 1 failed to re-associate and required clicking the AP. WEP security ========== First connection: 6 successful WEP dialogue followed by association. After OS reboot: 6 successful auto associations. After restart of Sugar UI: 6 successful auto associations. After sleep: 5 successful auto associations, 1 failed to re-associate and required entering WEP key again. WPA security ========== First connection: Prompts for the security string and then fails every time, until you subsequently click a dialogue cancel button, then clicking the AP again will associate (8.2 connects without a hitch). After OS reboot: A 6 attempts failed to re-associate and shows the security string dialogue, clicking cancel and then clicking the AP again will re-associate (8.2 connects without a hitch). After restart of Sugar UI: 6 successful auto associations. After sleep: All 6 times dropped back to mesh, 3 of those times manually clicking the AP auto re-associated, the other 3 times prompted for the security string which you had to cancel then click the AP again (8.2 did not automatically re-associate, but clicking the AP connected immediately with no dialogues). Hope this helps, --Gary P.S. Interestingly we had what seems to be the same behaviour, but with WEP, for a while early last year in the (long) run up to 8.2. _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
