[OLPC India] XO and Reliance NetConnect

[Sameer Verma]

Marc Valentin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I received my first XO a few days ago but so far I didn't test it
> much. One reason for that : I have a router (Belkin Pre-n) and, when
> running, the XO is completely messing up the router. Even computers
> connected with a cable to the router have problems, my all local
> network is broken apart temporarily when the XO is on. Hopefully,
> techs at OLPC will find a solution...
>
> Do you know if the XO can connect to internet with the Reliance
> Netconnect service (for example with their new MG880 USB Modem) ? Is
> it necessary to install some software ?
> If one laptop can connect to internet with this system, is this laptop
> capable of sharing the connection with the other XOs around ?
> I try to understand if a router is absolutely necessary to get
> internet connection. Times to times only there is electricity in our
> project area and I don't know of any battery powered router.
>
> -marc-
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Hi Marc,

If you got the XO from the G1G1 batch, then it probably shipped with
Build 650. The last working build I tested is 679. There have been
problems with some access points (my Linksys misbehaved as well) but
with the updates, its a lot better.

For updating see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update If you don't have
a uasble network connection, you will have to use a USB flash drive.

Also see/search http://olpc.osuosl.org/ for a lot more.

cheers,
Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/