Screenshot: Wifi in action
October 22, 2009
Posted by: gruso
If Pandora’s wifi status has been on your mind, this latest snap from MWeston’s album should brighten your day. For the uninitiated, what we’re seeing here is a successful connection handled by the xfce network manager, some terminal output for fun, a blinding flash of light, and… internets! Click to scrutinise.
[edit] Thanks, praise and donations of cool ale go out to DJWillis, who (in the words of Skeezix) has been busting his nuts to make this happen for us, and of course Notaz. Mweston says:
Combined with Notaz’s efforts to help me get more driver code and features into the git so DJ(Willis) can build them into his packages, they are the heart and soul of the kernel development process.
Sweet! ^_^ some one Ping me ;P
^ping
pong!
Wow, I totally forgot about the wifi problems. Solution found then, or is this just an initial glimmer of hope with a lot more work ahead?
Solution.
Wewt!
Sounds most promising – and just in time! This should make a lot, well, a lot easier IMHO.
Also, isn’t that just NetworkManager? Works on XFCE, LDXE, Gnome, KDE, and others I’m sure.
NetworkManager? Yuck. It get’s broken every other release. Wicd rules.
It has sometimes not been the best, but those were around the Fedora 7 days. Now it’s just awesomeness sprinkled with awesome. Bluetooth DUN and soon PAN networking (so tethering), it automatically detects my mobile phone when plugged in as a 3G modem and has the settings, handles VPN (important for my uni.) – in short, it’s going to make all those connectivity options that a mobile device like this needs, possible.
I also like networkmanager, mainly because it handles almost all connectivity to the internets. It have given me a few headaches but I still rate it as the best total solution for connectivity.
However, this news was about the driver, so greate work DJ & co!
Wootness. Software is getting so close…
this is very exciting news!
Outstanding! This device would be a lot less without internets. Excellent work!
Nice! =D
If that’s NetworkManager of GNOME fame, then I’m triple-excited. It has support for PAN and DUN Bluetooth tethering, which is I think, is on the wishlist for a lot of people. Excellent. Well done to all involved. Running NetworkManager on my Pandora would be preference, whether it be on E17 or not.
Yeah, from what I can tell, that’s NetworkManager with nm-applet running in the task bar. That makes me happy – my school’s wireless uses WPA2-Enterprise, and I know that NetworkManager’ll configure that for me. Good stuff.
Someone teach this man basic photography!
Great News!
What’s wrong with his photography skills?
He doesn’t have a $2000 SLR with remote flash and studio lighting. Obviously.
Someone just needs to remind him to not use the flash when taking shots of screens.
(Or send me a Pandora devboard so I can take photos
)
DJWillis sent me these pictures to show some recent progress. There was a better picture, but without that flash, only the LCD screen showed up. This one lit up the bezel and touch screen overlay so people wouldn’t cry FAKE!
FAKE!
See – it still happens anyway.
I know basic photography
. This was never meant to be a public image just a quick hand shot with a craptastic Panasonic hand-held in a dark room to show 2 people something of interest (it’s all got a little out of hand).
It was taken about 2 hours after I really should have gone to sleep
.
For the record. My main camera (that does not go anywhere near the Pandora) is an Olympus E30 with some reasonable glass but I tend to spend my hobby photo time doing outdoor landscape shots. Never been keen on having to move around lights and filters and the like at 1am to photo some half baked screenshot.
Well I think it’s lovely.
just hope the blinded ip is not 127.0.0.1
That would not be good considering ping tops at 800ms :S
Confirmed: pandora will get 800ms+ when pinging itself.
It was just Google, I think Mike wiped out the IP just in case it was one of mine. The device also had no antenna to speak of (not helping ping times in that shot).
Be careful; my amateur radio has a warning not to operate it without an antenna, as the reflected energy (from the antenna-less stub) can damage the RF components. Not sure how the lower power and higher frequency would affect it for the wifi module, but there might be a possibility of damage.
Does “ping” show the other computer or your own IP?
ANYONE is able to see Google’s IPs by typing “dig http://www.google.com” there is no need for secrecy…
So what is the TRUE reason for blanking them?
You’re right, they’re covering something up. Any fool would see this. I’m not even sure there _is_ a DJ Willis, I’m a DJ myself and even I’ve never heard of him.
Wake up people, even in the original story Pandora’s box was never opened, starting to draw a parallel? OPEN YOUR EYES! 1776 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
“So what is the TRUE reason for blanking them?”
Tolysz, there was NO reason for blanking it, I suspect MWeston did it, as he was unsure of what I was pinging, as a kindness.
If your worried about the blank bits then look at http://djwillis.openpandora.org/screenshots.zip as that is the very zip file I sent to MWeston. 3 crappy images in there including this one and one of my desk, all showing the same thing
.
John
Brilliant stuff, how about a video?
A deliciously detailed post from DJWillis:
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/50104-new-photo-from-mweston-wifi/page__view__findpost__p__765810
As ever. Informational.
That is great news. I can’t wait to see some testing of Firefox, and other internet capabilities.
Must say that is one hell of a dead pixel you’ve got on your screen there!
+1
Too much awesomeness for 408,000 pixels, I suspect.
That’s no dead pixel. It’s the piece of card he’s about to use to cut up that pile of Colombian Nasal Sherbet on the right.
Much love to DJWillis, Notaz and MWeston
DJWillis has been busting his nuts working on this driver? Maybe “bust a nut” means something different in Oz (or Toronto, for that matter), but that sounds like pretty awesome work to me.
“Bust a Nut” does indeed mean “Working very hard, at great personal effort” in Canada.
This is magnificent news, one of the last pieces of the Pandora puzzle.
I really would be ecstatic with a youtube video simply showing …
$ ping http://www.gp32x.com
PING http://www.gp32x.com (85.214.117.239) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from hephaistos.openpandora.org (85.214.117.239): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=171 ms
64 bytes from hephaistos.openpandora.org (85.214.117.239): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=170 ms
64 bytes from hephaistos.openpandora.org (85.214.117.239): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=171 ms
64 bytes from hephaistos.openpandora.org (85.214.117.239): icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=174 ms
… scroll by, but the picture does speak 1000 words!
lmao, bust a nut means something totally different here ;p
perhaps u could put the other picture up too, i like that one better
Have you seen the latest XBMC video on arm using gles 2.0?
http://xbmc.org/theuni/2009/10/23/xbmc-on-arm-gles-2-0/
Delicious. There’s really not much software left to port to ARM.
Ooh, just found there is an ARM version of Chrome web browser
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxChromiumArm
Well, it can be compiled for ARM if you know how to do it….
Well? Do you?
Um, ah, ahem….no, don’t think so….