[olpc-community-support] Can't see our wifi in neighborhood view

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your suggestion, Paul.  I checked it and I was set to broadcast. The funny thing is that next day, we did see our wifi but could not connect.  The key prompt was asking for "passphrase" or "hex" or "ASCII".  So I decided to call Linksys support (which btw is very good), and told them what I was trying to do.  They walked me thru upgrading firmware, and changing my SSID, and key setting to "64 bit hex 10 digits".  After resetting router and cable modem, it worked!!  And the XO is fast!
Today, my son just followed the instructions to install Adobe Flash, and voila, he's watching videos now!  Nice experience for him.


russelldad at gmail.com wrote:
> Try checking your wireless access point to see if you are broadcasting your SSID. My guess is that your wireless access point is configured not to broadcast and that is why you can't see it. If that is the case you probably manually typed in the SSID into your windows machine when you set up wireless networking. 
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> PS: I'm not part of the laptop.org (http://laptop.org) team. Still waiting for my G1G1 to arrive. :)
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> On Dec 17, 2007 11:22 PM, Anonymous < community-support at lists.laptop.org (community-support at lists.laptop.org)> wrote:
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> > Just got the XO last Saturday. We can't see our own WiFi, but we can see the ones in our neighborhood (even the weakest ones). Any idea why? My Windows laptop shows our WiFi plus our neighbors. The XO shows our neighbors but not ours. Need your help since my son was so looking forward to this and is now disappointed. Thanks. 
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