Tutorials/Connecting to the Internet
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- Use the <==left__________center__________right==> links in the blue top/bottom bars to connect to another part of this Annotated Guide to Sugar
- Boot one of the many flavors of Sugar
- Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) USB-stick
- Soas CD
- Sugar-emulator
- Sugar-Desktop with GNOME3-shell or another Desktop
- a VirtualBox Appliance of SoaS
- XO-1 or XO-1.5 One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Laptop
- Click the Downloads link in the Top/Bottom blue bar for more information about Sugar and how it is used
- Use your Browser <=== Back arrow to return to this page
- Hit the F1 key to 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
- 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 3; circle with a ( O )and 2 underscores
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"
- These will be missing if there is no working wireless Hardware in your equipment
- Or there is no Wireless Access Point in Range
3-)If you are plugged in to a cat-5 wired network connection
- you will be automatically connected to the internet when you boot sugar
- 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
- You are now connected to the Internet or Ad-Hoc Network