[olpc-help] Assistance configuring wireless

[Steve Holton]

If your access point is indeed hidden, you can enter it manually at the top
of the Neighborhood display.

See http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/start/connecting.shtml for more detail.


On Jan 8, 2008 12:17 PM, Wilson Farrell <wilsonfarrell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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