[olpc-help] Assistance configuring wireless

[Wilson Farrell]

Vincent,
If your SSID is hidden and you get "no joy" from Steve's technique, you 
may want to try to manually connect to your WAP using the procedure I 
just found here:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manual_Wireless_Association


Wilson


Steve Holton wrote:
> 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 
> <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 
> <mailto: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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