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Tutorials/Connecting to the Internet

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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
You will leave this Introduction if you click this link^
To return Click the <== Back arrow on your browser.
Click Mesh key f1 small.png in the frame or Hit the Network Neighborhood or F1 key to 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 11; circle with a ( O )and 2 underscores

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 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 Home (or f3) and return to the main screen
You are now connected to the Internet
If you have connected on 1-) or 3-)
Requires an internet connection
Wireless Access Point and cat-5 wired network connections will show the jabber XO Avitars; indicating a working connection to the internet.
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