On Dec 19, 2007 5:58 PM, AlaskanMariner <<a href="mailto:sv.aphrodite@gmail.com">sv.aphrodite@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>So, since there were three computers in the room (two PCs and a Mac) with active wifi I was detecting them?</blockquote><div><br>Not quite. <br><br>The laptop's 3 mesh networks are always present, because any 3 of them could have users online that you don't realize... "discovery" is an important word on this machine. Without other XOs (or running OLPC software in emulation), there difference is meaningless.
<br><br>To simulate a larger network, however, you can run emulation software on your PCs and Mac, and have all of them be full-screen OLPC machines. More information on the wiki, and keep an eye out here on the site for announcements on when we make free, live CDs available for download.
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I understand that the OLPC computers will connect to each other just by clicking on the appropriate icon, but I don't understand how that will work with a PC or Mac.
</blockquote><div><br>PCs and Macs are not smart enough to participate in the mesh, which is based on an open standard from Intel. The XO is dumb enough, if you will, to do Infrastructure, or traditional wireless mode. This lets you connect your XO with your other machines to connect to the internet and the like.
<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Michael Burns * Student<br>Open Source {Education} Lab