[Server-devel] wifi setup

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:53:20PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote:
> 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.

Ah, okay.  Sorry, I don't track os300py.

> > 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).

Aye, that will do it.  Glad to be of help.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/