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*Boot your Sugar on a Stick (SoaS); Sugar-emulator; Sugar-Desktop; or XO-1-1.5
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*Boot your Sugar on a Stick (SoaS); Soas CD; Sugar-emulator; Sugar-Desktop; VirtualBox Appliance of SoaS; or XO-1-1.5
  
*Hit F1 key and you switch to the Jabber Network Neighborhood View
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*Hit '''F1''' key and you switch to the Jabber Network Neighborhood View
 
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::XO-1 and XO-1.5  have no wired connection only wireless (1 or 2 above)
 
::XO-1 and XO-1.5  have no wired connection only wireless (1 or 2 above)
 
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*hit '''f3''' and return to the main screen
*hit f3 and return to the main screen
 
  
 
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Revision as of 16:32, 8 December 2011

Introduction to the Sugar Interface Downloads Drag-Drop from 2nd USB
  • Boot your Sugar on a Stick (SoaS); Soas CD; Sugar-emulator; Sugar-Desktop; VirtualBox Appliance of SoaS; or XO-1-1.5
  • Hit F1 key and you switch to the Jabber Network Neighborhood View

Screenshot of f1 Network-Neighborhood on jabber.png

You are the XO in the center.
Hover on it and the same drop-down menu will appear as in f3
All the other XO figures are other users on the jabber network
Their name will be displayed if you hover over each one.
  • Sugar uses 3 classes of connections:

1-)You should see 3 circles with a filling:

Circle with a dot;Circle with a dot and underscore;Circle with a dot and 2 underscores.
These are Ad-Hoc connections.
That let sugar connect users locally with no Internet Connection
Sugar is connected to AD-Hoc network 1; circle with a ( O ) marking

Screenshot of Ad-Hoc.png

2-)There should be other unfilled colored circles (with or without a lock symbol)

These are Wireless Access Points
  • You can click on any of these circles and sugar will try to connect to it.
A drop down menu will appear; asking for password if the AP requires a password; and a selection to "Connect"

Wireless Access Point.png

These will be missing if there is now working wireless Hardware in your equipment

3-)If you have a cat-5 wired network connection

you will be automatically connected to the internet
There will be no indication of this connection from Network Manager.
XO-1 and XO-1.5 have no wired connection only wireless (1 or 2 above)
  • hit f3 and return to the main screen