[olpc-community-support] adult newby questions

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How to change your machine Nickname?  For Leanne & All:

Launch your XO laptop's Terminal activity, by starting from the Home 
View (http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/start/homeview.shtml) and then 
scrolling the Activity taskbar (along the bottom of your screen) to the 
right.  Look for the Terminal icon, which is the one that contains "$_" 
within a rectangle.  Click it once to launch.

When you arrive at Terminal's text-based command prompt, type the 
following just for kicks:
    sugar-control-panel          (hit 'Enter' to run)
    sugar-control-panel -l       (lists parameters)

Finallt, to change your machine's nick, run:
    sugar-control-panel -s nick MY-NEW-NICKNAME

Does that work for you?

Thanks,
OLPC Support (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support)

Anonymous wrote:
> Not sure if this is the right place to post these... but here goes:
> 1) Accidentally misspelled my child's name at the first page-- spent about an hour figuring out I needed to use the sugar terminal to find nickname and change... followed instructions down to the "restart" instruction and did that-- also turned machine on and off again but alas... it's still showing her name wrong. HELP! 
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> 2) Trying to log on to my wi-fi network but It appears I have a 64bit /10 character for my wep key. I've also spent an hour trying every possible combination of passwords, keys etc to get this baby logged on but no go... 
> I'm at my dad's visiting for a week and my own personal laptop logged on first try using the wep key so I know it's not the network.
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> Also, just some feedback-- I feel like your main page of help needs to have access to a searchable knowledgebase.  I found this forum after clicking around for at least 15 minutes. I thought my only options were to email help@ or sign up for the community email list which seemed like I'd be signing up for a flood of listserve type thing that was not searchable. Great project but given I've only had this puppy for tonight and it appears I'm one of the first to get mine, AND I've already had two questions/problems, I think that phone and email are going to be mobbed.
> Leanne
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