<br>I believe most AP's are plug n play on the XS, we'd tested quite a few including the Active Antenna's that OLPC used to ship earlier, which worked fine in AP/Bridged/Managed mode, though used to crash every once in a while and required a reboot. The interface labelling as Sameer pointed out was a bit tricky though. Also, if I remember correctly we'd gotten the best perfomance with 20 or so XO's to an AP.<br>
<br>You could also use the APs in repeater mode with the same SSID, if you're planning to use more then one AP.<br> <br>Cheers,<br>Dev<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Watlington</b> <<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
<br> Unless your school is very small, using dedicated wireless interface<br> in the server is probably not<br> a good idea.<br><br> We suggest dedicated access points as schools with more than 40 - 50<br> students will need more<br>
than one access point, and they are best spread out (i.e. not all the<br> antennas are within three feet<br> of the school server.)<br><br> There is currently no effort in the XS configuration scripts to<br> recognize and properly configure such<br>
an interface. That doesn't mean it won't "just work", and I'm sure<br> it could be made to work with minimal<br> effort.<br><br> As Sameer said, let us know what you decide, and what works for you!<br>
<br> Cheers,<br> wad<br><br><br> On Mar 8, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Xavier Ziemba wrote:<br><br> > I've been working on configuring an XS server for the Cambridge<br> > Friends School in Massachusetts and have a couple of questions<br>
> regarding wireless networking and the XS server. Does the XS<br> > software support automatic configuration of PCI wireless cards<br> > within the server itself? The documentation on the OLPC wiki seems<br> > to suggest that using separate wireless access points through a<br>
> wired interface is supported; would this be a better solution for<br> > this deployment? Also, how would I go about configuring the<br> > appropriate links between network interfaces if I used wireless<br> > cards within the server?<br>
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