Tutorials/Connecting to the Internet

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Boot Sugar

• The Home view appears.

• Click the Neighborhood view button in the Frame or press the <F1> 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.
   
   
   

2. 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.
   
   

   • 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.

   • Click (OK)

     A successful connection will show wave fronts on each side of the Wireless Access Point circle you selected.

3. 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.