[Server-devel] wifi setup

[Tom Parker]

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 13:48 +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> Different OLPC OS builds present access points with same essid in
> different ways.  There was a problem with multiple access point
> presentation fixed somewhere along the way in development, but I'd have
> to go looking for it.  Which build are you working with?
> 
> (Tabitha mentioned 8.2.1 on Monday ... and I think that build is
> affected by the problem).

We updated to os300py and observed access points with the same essid
showed up in the neighborhood only once.

> You could also capture the output of command
> 
> 	sudo iwlist eth0 scan > scan.txt
> 
> and check the file carefully for anything strange in the essid that
> might make them unique.

Thanks, this let me find the problem easily. I had spelt Laumoli wrong
in two different ways for 3 unique spellings (well, one was a hard to
see prepended space character).