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<div><font face="courier new,monospace">I have recently received two XO laptops. My kids love them and have been doing a great job of learning to use them and using the built-in mesh networking to share the applications with each other. I would like to allow them access to our home Wifi as well and understand from the </font><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity#Overview"><font face="courier new,monospace">Wifi Overview</font></a><font face="courier new,monospace"> that this not supported by the default configuration. I'm wondering if it is safe for me to simply point eth0 to my access point while the two XOs are meshed together (with iwconfig eth0 ...). I can see my access point in the neighborhood view but am not given any option to connect (also I have WEP enabled on my radio but it looks straighforward enough to add the key to the iwconfig line). Anyhow, if I do this, will I cause problems for the mesh? What will happen when they leave our home area? Will I have to do something similar when we go to a wireless hotspot? Anyhow, any help you can offer would be greatly appreaciated.</font></div>
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<div><font face="courier new,monospace">Thank you VERY much!</font></div>
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