Tutorials/Connecting to the Internet
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- Boot your Sugar on a Stick (SoaS); Sugar-emulator; Sugar-Desktop; or XO-1-1.5
- Hit F1 key and you switch to the Jabber Network Neighborhood View
- 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
- 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. They
- They let sugar connect users locally with no Internet Connection
- There should be other unfilled colored circles (with or without a lock symbol)
- These are Wireless Access Points
- You are connected to the circle with a ( O ) marking (RED in this Screen-Shot)
- You can click on any of these circles and sugar will try to connect to it.
- 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.
- hit f3 and return to the main screen