[OLPC Networking] Wifi doesn't work well?

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Wed May 16 07:18:30 EDT 2007


Check with Dan Williams on whether there is anything you can do to help
debug WPA; IIRC, this was going to require looking at the packets on the
air and figure out what isn't right.

The biggest help is what Vint could do: find out exactly what hardware
and firmware he's trying to connect to, so that we can easily replicate
and test against it.  I also don't yet know if his system is up to date;
if he's running out of date software, he'll be having many more
problems.
                                     Regards,
                                           - Jim


On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 10:42 -0700, Krishna Sankar (ksankar) wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> 	Earlier I had asked for a couple to test mesh and wireless. I do
> have the apple express and airport. Would be happy to help out, also can
> work on WPA. Just as background, I am the lead author the Cisco Wireless
> Lan Security book. 
> 
> Cheers
> <k/>  
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> [mailto:networking-bounces at laptop.org] On Behalf Of Jim Gettys
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:09 AM
> To: Vint Cerf
> Cc: networking at laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [OLPC Networking] Wifi doesn't work well?
> 
> Vint,
> 
> What build are you running?  We'd suggest 406.
> 
> Are you using WPA on your system?  We don't have WPA running (yet); this
> seems unlikely given you say it is "unprotected".
> 
> We've been having some trouble with certain access points; if you could
> get us the exact model number of the apple express, that would be very
> helpful.
> 
> I'll enter this into our trac system for you and cc you on it; this way
> we won't forget about the problem.
> 
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1484
>                                 Best Regards,
>                                        - Jim Gettys
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 00:05 -0400, Vint Cerf wrote:
> > I have an OLPC at home, using an unprotected apple express that is 
> > slaved to an apple base station, I can see my home network but double 
> > clicking on the icon for this apple express unit does NOT result in 
> > network connectivity. Do I need to invoke some kind of unix CLI mantra
> 
> > to actually get this system to link to the apple express?
> >  
> > thanks
> >  
> > vint
> >  
> >  
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