[olpc-help] Assistance configuring wireless

[Wilson Farrell]

Vincent.
I'm no expert, but in my experience, you don't want to join the Mesh 
Networks.  It seems from your description they are not what you think 
they are.  They are for interacting with other XO's and they are created 
by your laptop.  So without other XO's or a school server around, they 
aren't really going to help you access the internet.

On your neighborhood display you should see other round icons, which are 
different colors and will be partially filled depending on signal 
strength.  Icons with locks are those with some type of security.  Those 
are access points. If you do not see your wireless network, then it may 
be because you are not broadcasting your SSID.  That would of course be 
my non-expert guess, and in the absence of any experts speaking up, that 
may be all your going to get.  I would reconfigure your access point to 
broadcast the SSID temporarily to see if the access point icon appears. 
  Then you will know it is your lack of SSID.

Good luck,

Wilson


Vincent Day wrote:
> Hello,
> My name is Vincent Day and I'm a member of the IT staff at an independent school in Philadelphia, we recently have a student who received and OLPC XO1 as part of the G1-G1 program.  We are trying to use the laptop on our managed wireless network, however
> have been unsuccessful.  When we go to the network neighborhood, we can see our wireless network, instead of listing the SSIDs, listed are Mesh network 1, 6, and 11.  We are able to join the Mesh networks, but we are not prompted to enter our SSID,
> therefor we are unsuccessful getting an IP and furthermore logging on to the network.  In terminal if we run nm-tool, we see that wireless is enabled, yet we are unable to get an IP from our network.  This is an open network with open security, but a
> non-broadcasted SSID (for apple or Windows clients, simply entering the SSID will grant access to the network.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Vince Day
> 
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