[olpc-community-support] My WEP connection experience.

[Kim Quirk]

Mary,
If you want to remove any 'memory' of connecting to a particular access
point, go into the terminal activity and delete the network manager config
file:

1 - start up the 'terminal' activity
2 - type: rm /home/olpc/.sugar/default/nm/networks.cfg (you can cat this
file to see what is in it).

Now when you reboot or restart sugar (ctl-alt-delete); your laptop will not
automatically try to connect to the 'known' access point.

Kim


On Dec 18, 2007 10:37 PM, mary <trauthm at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have my normal (linksys) router with WPA security. Obviously, I couldn't
> get that to work (I didn't try the manual method yet).
>
> I also have a travel D-Link (DWL730-AP) router - so I connected it at home
> and re-configured it to WEP - with a 64bit key set to all zeroes (I didn't
> want the network un-secured, but I didn't want to complicate things
> either!).
>
> This worked great when I connected the XO.
>
> However - I did encounter a weird experience, which may be related to an
> issue I read somewhere, either in the tickets or this forum.
>
> I was using the D-Link web based config utility to set up the router using
> my normal laptop (connected wirelessly) - it would seem to work fine - I'd
> refresh the wireless networks view (I'm in XP) and re-connect to the router.
> It would seem to connect, but I could not actually get any web page to come
> up (page not displayed error). I tried re-setting the cable modem, the
> router (hard reset and re-configure), re-booted the machine - I kept having
> the same problems.
>
> During this whole time, the XO was on. Something made me try to connect
> with the XO. I clicked on my circle, entered the key (and I'm sorry, but I
> don't remember the selections I made on the key-entry popup), a couple of
> blinks of the outer circle, and that outer circle turned white! (which, by
> the way, is kind of hard to see) I went in to 'browse' and everything worked
> fine.
>
> The crazy part here is that - believe it or not - my laptop connection
> started working also. I did nothing but hit refresh in IE on a page I'd
> tried to bring up before, and it worked fine.
>
> Now - to my point :) -
>
> If someone could tell me how to 'undo' my connection on the XO - I could
> try to reproduce this whole sequence of events - if I can re-create the same
> behavior, it may help in troubleshooting some of the issues people are
> having.
>
> Let me know if I can help.
>
> Mary
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