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Tutorials/Connecting to the Internet

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Boot Sugar

  • The Home (or f3) Screen appears

Screenshot of Home f3 spiral.png

  • Click Mesh key f1 small.png in the frame or Hit the Neighborhood (F1) key to switch to the "Neighborhood" View

Screenshot of f1 Network-Neighborhood on jabber.png

You are the XO Avitar in the center.
Hover on it and the same drop-down menu will appear as in the Home (f3) view
All the other XO Avitars are other users on the jabber network
A users 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
Wireless Access Points will be missing if there is no working wireless hardware in your computer.
Or there is no Wireless Access Point in Range

Wireless Access Point.png

  • You can click on any of these circles and sugar will try to connect to it.
A drop down menu will appear; and a selection to Connect
A farther drop down 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 ( O ) side bars on the Wireless Access Point circle you selected.

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 (2 or 3 above)
Requires an internet connection
Wireless Access Point and cat-5 wired network connections should show the jabber XO Avitars; indicating a working connection to the internet.
  • Use the ← left________________________right → links in the colored bar below
to connect to another part of this Annotated Guide to Sugar
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