[OLPC India] XO and Reliance NetConnect

[Marc Valentin]

I had to wait for some time to get my "developer key".
Now I installed build 681 but I don't see any fix for the Pre-n routers.
I think it's going to take some more time to have a solution for this.

On Jan 11, 2008 7:17 PM, Marc Valentin <mvalentin at oeuvredespains.org> wrote:
> Ok. I found it here :
> http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build679/devel_jffs2/
> I will let you know if it fixes the problem.
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 7:11 PM, Marc Valentin <mvalentin at abeditions.com> wrote:
> > Hi Sameer,
> > Thank you for the advice.
> > I already updated the XO to build 653 (stable).
> > I don't see any build 679. Is it not 629 ?
> > This is the lastest one I see here :
> > http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/development/
> >
> >
> > On Jan 11, 2008 6:40 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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/
> > >
> > >
> >
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