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[scott]

Right click on network connections in control panel then click on add to main panel. That should work.

[AlanR8]

Hard wired connection was just automatic. No problems. I found the easiest way to get the wireless connection established was to go through the Wizard process. First time connection to my wireless at home I had to turn SSID broadcast ON in the router.

Subsequently, I've been to several client locations and logged on effortlessly to their wi-fi networks.

One little bug is the wi-fi icon currently has a red stop sign on it yet all is well. Every now and then it changes briefly to show signal strength.

[MPvDdB]

[MPvDdB]

[quote="BoyLinux"]

We are looking for feedback on the new Xandros Network Connection applet that has been included in V4.

Please post anything that you liked/disliked about it.

How is it for ease of use?
How is it for Wireless profiles?

Anything extra that you think we can throw in it (besides a kitchen sink).

</quote>

[GaryW]

I am having trouble with the PPTP VPN connection. I need to connect to 8 different VPNs, all of which have 3Com routers which also are the PPTP servers for the sites. I use all of the default options, except I disable the encryption. (I didn't have to disable encryption with Windoes XP but I do with Vista.) I am connecting to the sites according to the router logs but I am unable to connect to the equipment at the sites using the Firefox browser.

I also tried the PPTP-Linux program but I haven't been able to get the companion pptpconfig program to work in Xandros Desktop Home Edition - Premium.

[GaryW]

I finally got my VPN connection to work by a trial-and-error modification of the configuration files in /etc/ppp/peers. I had to comment out the "nodeflate" option, apparently the PPTP server in the routers is doing some sort of compression.

I also had to comment out "require mppe". I also had to disable encoding in Windows Vista but not in Windows XP. I could also have done this in "Network Connections" instead of editing the file.

There is a configuration file in /etc/ppp/peers for each VPN, named vpn1, vpn2, ...

[ITSa341]

The network wizard doesn't find my bluetooth DUN connection. I created a DUN connection over my bluetooth phone ( Kyocera Strobe )using wvdial but as the network wizard does not see it I have no way to easily setup internet sharing. Is there a way to make the network wizard recognize the connection or the device? If not this is a feature that should definately be added in future releases.

[Kurzbein]

I'm running X4sp1 Home Premium. The wizard itself is easy to use for my needs. However, in practice it doesn't work very well. I've had consistent - and lately continuous - problems connecting to my wireless LAN.

When I try to connect my computer freezes, and I'm forced to Alt-Sysreq-B to reboot it. No other Sysreq combos work to kill processes and unfreeze. Initially I configured my system to connect automatically, but it would freeze up every time. I disabled the auto-connect, and since then I've had intermittent freeze-up problems when I connect manually.

I've posted about this issue a few times:

http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=30625&highlight=

http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=30640&highlight=

The consensus seems to be that this is a kernel problem. That may be the case, but whatever the problem is, it's related to the internet connection process because that's the only common denominator in my frequent system freeze ups.

[redlabour]

It seems Xandros 4.1 is not able to use eth0 and eth1 on a nForce 680i (MSI P6N).

Xandros found them - connect with them - but there is still no working WWW Connection with any Internetapplication. The Connection seems to be only a Dummy. No Errormessages.

I have used a direct Connection without DHCP to my AVM Router.
All other Distribution (Ubuntu 7.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Spring 2007, openSUSE 10.2) did not make any Problems on the same way of WWW Connection.


http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=f1f0ac7f89f9d0eca610c0d53bc61d0f&t=79917&page=2&highlight=680i+ethernet

[gone111]

I have had trouble getting a D-Link DWL-g510 to work with other Distros.
without any luck, supported cards are few and far between. However, with
Xandros v4 I have been able to get connected using WEP, the only problem
is when I reboot the connection hangs "pending", all done as root. Then if I delete the connection and create it again it works again.

I have read in another message that a hidden SSID could be the problem ?

Any ideas, thanks.

[volvoguy]

My laptop with V4 connects every time I go to the coffee shop but it can take upto 10 minutess to connect, my XP connection is right now. Can anyone help me spped this up so I can get totally off XP!

Thanks

[Trent Tschirgi]

I just posted a lengthy description of things I've tried to get my wireless card to work with Xandros Professional Desktop v.4 (XPD4)--

XDP 4 ( the previous version) operated my wireless card very well, once I loaded the Win XP driver into NDIS wrapper. XPD4 will not accept the drivers. As nearly as I can tell, it just plain doesn't work.

I AM able to get to the internet by plugging a cable into the laptop...

Summary:
1) Xan Desktop Premium v.4 used to run my wireless card.
2) Xan Pro Desktop v.4 does not run my wireless card.
3) Win XP (on my dual-boot system) runs my wireless card.

For additional details, see my post of 8/25/07 entitled something like,
'ndis wrapper does not accept wireless win driver.'

Let me know if you have a solution for this problem-- And feel free to send me an email if you need more information.

All the best,

Trent T
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[bferrell]

I seem to be having some issues, although I can use Thunderbird and Mozilla fine, I cannot seem to get XN to connect. I'm using a hard-wired connection to router through TW cable modem.

This is especially annoying since I was hoping to find and updated driver for my nvidia dual head video card, it shows the same desktop on both screens, but the display manager only shows one monitor. From reading the forums, it seems that my card (GeForce 7950 if I recall correctly) is supposed to be auto-detected in 4 Premium (just d/l Monday).

[freezy]

Everything works except the green signal meter is missing
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