Tutorials/Connecting to the Internet


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Boot Sugar

 * The Home view appears.


 * Click the Neighborhood view button [[File:Mesh_key_f1_small.png]] in the Frame or press the  key to switch to the Neighborhood view.




 * You are represented by the XO avatar in the center of the screen.
 * Hover the pointer on it and the same pop-up palette menu will appear as in the Home view version of the avatar.
 * All the other XO avatars are other Learners on the network.
 * A Learner's name will be displayed when you hover over any avatar.

Sugar can make 3 types of network connections.
 * 1) Ad hoc - You should see 3 circles with different center symbols (representing Maya numerals):
 * A single dot - channel 1; a single dot with a bar - channel 6; a single dot with 2 bars - channel 11.
 * These are Ad hoc connections.
 * They allow Sugar to connect Learners in radio range of each other without an Internet connection.
 * Sugar is connected to Ad-hoc Network 1; a color-filled circle with a single dot surrounded by two wave fronts. Screenshot_of_Ad-Hoc.png
 * 1) Wireless Access Points''' - These may be present as color-filled circles (with or without a lock symbol).
 * These are the Wireless Access Points.
 * Wireless Access Points may not be present if there is no working wireless hardware in your computer or there are no Wireless Access Points in range of the computer. Wireless_Access_Point.png
 * 1) * You can click on any of these circles and Sugar will try to connect to the radio source.
 * A pop-up palette menu will appear with an option to Connect.
 * A secondary palette menu will let you set the encryption type
 * and ask for a password if the "Wireless Access Point' requires a password.
 * 1) * Click (OK)
 * A successful connection will show wave fronts on each side of the Wireless Access Point circle you selected.
 * 1) Wired network - If you are plugged into an active wired connection
 * you will be automatically connected to the Internet when you boot Sugar.
 * There will be no indication of this connection from Network Manager software.


 * XO laptops have no wired network connection hardware, so only wireless connections are possible using steps 1 or 2 above.


 * Press the Home view button and return to the Home view screen.


 * You are now connected to the Internet, if you succeeded in step 2 or 3 above.


 * Communicate in a Chat room with other Sugar Learners and developers on IRC channels, such as #sugar and #sugar-es.
 * This requires an Internet connection.
 * Wireless Access Point and wired network connections should show the Jabber XO avatars indicating a working connection to the Internet.


 * You must register with one of the working Community Jabber servers as instructed here.