Patrik Flykt wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 21:21 +0100, ext Leon Stringer wrote: >> wireless status icon had a dot above the normal symbol. Can anyone tell >> me what this means? > > The dot above the normal symbol mean a WLAN ad-hoc network. If the > device can't get a IP address with DHCP, it will fall back to > autoconfigured link-local IPv4 addresses. When a link-local address is > assigned, there won't be any default route set up, meaning no > connectivity anywhere except that link-local network. Thanks Patrik, I wouldn't have guessed that. >> Oddly, when I went to try again, the battery was dead I'm not sure if >> that's related. > > No, that's not related except that WLAN ad-hoc mode consumes more power > and thus drains battery faster. > Maybe that was why. _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
