[OLPC Networking] XO/XS Networking Issues

[Chris Ball]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 17 2012, Shaun Pickford wrote:
> I am currently in Haiti working to set up a school server in a partner school
> that has ~20 XO's.  We have XS running on a Fit-PC2 and are able to connect to
> the School Server from our test XO.  Our ideal next step is providing internet
> connectivity to the XO's through the server.  To accomplish this, we hope to
> utilize a Natcom 3G card connected to one of the USB ports.  It seems like all
> we need to do is install wvdial, but I'm getting a "Couldn't resolve host '
> mirrorlist.centos.org'" error.  I currently have no other way to connect the
> server to the internet (there is wifi at our hotel, but I'm not sure how to
> connect the XS or even if I can?).
>
> I'm sure this is an easy fix, I just don't know what commands I need and am
> having trouble finding them in the XS documentation on laptop.org.
>
> Thank you to anyone who can help out!  

Assuming XS-0.7, I think this is the package file you need:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.2/os/i386/Packages/wvdial-1.60-12.el6.i686.rpm

You can download it to a USB stick, then run "rpm -ivh
wvdial-1.60-12.el6.i686.rpm" to install it on the XS.

- Chris.
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