Perhaps I can't see the forest for the trees here.
I installed the 767 build and now I'm trying to get on wireless. I'm definitely in range. First I thought it was because I had WPA2 Personal security on my home AP. Brought the XO to work where I have a Linksys WRT54G2, I disabled wireless security completely, and still am not able to access the network. Both at home and at work there are other networks in range besides mine.
I hunted around on the testing wiki and googled without finding anything helpful. I've discarded network history on the Network setup.
(And I'd like to get to the point where I can ssh onto this thing because the keyboard is not friendly for either my fat fingers or my RSI.)
Help!
/Blake
Blake St. Claire wrote:
Perhaps I can't see the forest for the trees here.
I installed the 767 build and now I'm trying to get on wireless. I'm definitely in range. First I thought it was because I had WPA2 Personal security on my home AP. Brought the XO to work where I have a Linksys WRT54G2, I disabled wireless security completely, and still am not able to access the network. Both at home and at work there are other networks in range besides mine.
I hunted around on the testing wiki and googled without finding anything helpful. I've discarded network history on the Network setup.
FWIW if you look on the sugar docs, they say that channels 1, 6, and 11 are best. In sugar, I could not connect to my router until I switched it to channel 1. If you can... give that a try.
-- bk
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Bryan Kearney bkearney@redhat.com wrote:
Blake St. Claire wrote:
Perhaps I can't see the forest for the trees here.
I installed the 767 build and now I'm trying to get on wireless. I'm definitely in range. First I thought it was because I had WPA2 Personal security on my home AP. Brought the XO to work where I have a Linksys WRT54G2, I disabled wireless security completely, and still am not able to access the network. Both at home and at work there are other networks in range besides mine.
I hunted around on the testing wiki and googled without finding anything helpful. I've discarded network history on the Network setup.
FWIW if you look on the sugar docs, they say that channels 1, 6, and 11 are best. In sugar, I could not connect to my router until I switched it to channel 1. If you can... give that a try.
I'm a complete newbie to the XO. Changing to channel 1 didn't help.
What I did find by poking around, by dragging over to the right side third of the mousepad that I get into a different screen where I could switch to neighborhood, group, etc. Activating neighborhood showed three mesh hotspots: mesh 1, mesh 6, and mesh 11. My AP 'hotspot' did not show up in my neighborhood no matter whether it was on channel 1 or channel 11.
I googled again this morning (with coffee in me) and found http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity (is this the sugar docs?) and found the instructions for manually connecting: /sbin/iwconfig eth0 mode managed essid <myssid> /sbin/dhclient eth0
That's got me onto the network and I was able to do a software update, getting the browse(r) app among everything else. Next step is to get my devkey.
/Blake
Blake St. Claire wrote:
Perhaps I can't see the forest for the trees here.
I installed the 767 build and now I'm trying to get on wireless. I'm definitely in range. First I thought it was because I had WPA2 Personal security on my home AP. Brought the XO to work where I have a Linksys WRT54G2, I disabled wireless security completely, and still am not able to access the network. Both at home and at work there are other networks in range besides mine.
I hunted around on the testing wiki and googled without finding anything helpful. I've discarded network history on the Network setup.
(And I'd like to get to the point where I can ssh onto this thing because the keyboard is not friendly for either my fat fingers or my RSI.)
Help!
If you just need to get a devkey you can copy the .devkey.html file to another pc via a usb stick, point at it in a browser*, and get the key that way. Then copy it to /security via the usb key again.
I did that when I too was having wireless trouble with one of the builds I landed on.
-Eric
*FF3 didn't like the certificate, Safari failed to display the form properly, but lynx worked for me ;)
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 08:11 -0400, Blake St. Claire wrote:
Perhaps I can't see the forest for the trees here.
I installed the 767 build and now I'm trying to get on wireless. I'm definitely in range. First I thought it was because I had WPA2 Personal security on my home AP. Brought the XO to work where I have a Linksys WRT54G2, I disabled wireless security completely, and still am not able to access the network. Both at home and at work there are other networks in range besides mine.
Yep. I was never able to get my XO to connect to my wireless using the GUI.
Here's what I did via the terminal (I have a WEP key):
# iwlist scanning eth0 (make sure your network shows up in the list) # iwconfig eth0 mode managed # iwconfig eth0 key 's:mykey' # iwconfig eth0 essid 'myessid' # iwconfig (make sure you've got your AP's MAC address in there) # dhclient eth0
Then I was able to access the Interwebs. Note that you'll have to wait for all the networking stuff that the XO automagically does with meshing to finish before trying to configure the card. Not sure why that is.
Michael.
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Blake St. Claire wrote:
Perhaps I can't see the forest for the trees here.
I installed the 767 build and now I'm trying to get on wireless. I'm definitely in range. First I thought it was because I had WPA2 Personal security on my home AP. Brought the XO to work where I have a Linksys WRT54G2, I disabled wireless security completely, and still am not able to access the network. Both at home and at work there are other networks in range besides mine.
I hunted around on the testing wiki and googled without finding anything helpful. I've discarded network history on the Network setup.
(And I'd like to get to the point where I can ssh onto this thing because the keyboard is not friendly for either my fat fingers or my RSI.)
You could plug in a USB keyboard, btw.
--g
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg gdk@redhat.com wrote:
You could plug in a USB keyboard, btw.
Yup, if I had one. :-)
/Blake
I'm on WPA2 at home - should I expect trouble with the wireless? It would be a pain to change/re-key everything wireless in the house.
Stupid Question Time:
Should I have trouble with the wireless, could I simply plug in a USB wired Ethernet adapter?
- Adam
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:27 -0400, Blake St. Claire wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg gdk@redhat.com wrote:
You could plug in a USB keyboard, btw.
Yup, if I had one. :-)
/Blake
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Adam D. Ligas adam@physco.com wrote:
I'm on WPA2 at home - should I expect trouble with the wireless? It would be a pain to change/re-key everything wireless in the house.
I re-enabled WPA2 and but have not had any luck getting wireless set up using the suggestions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WPA_Manual_Setting
Stupid Question Time:
Should I have trouble with the wireless, could I simply plug in a USB wired Ethernet adapter?
Somewhere it says that'll work.
/Blake
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Adam D. Ligas adam@physco.com wrote:
I'm on WPA2 at home - should I expect trouble with the wireless? It would be a pain to change/re-key everything wireless in the house.
I upgraded to the 767 image last night and lost access to my wireless. I copied the manual script mentioned here towards the bottom of the page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WPA_Manual_Setting
to a USB key and then ran it from the XO. It took 30 to 60 seconds after running the script but I was then connected to my wireless access point and able to run the software update. Seems to be working fine now.
FWIW, the WAP I connect to is a WRT54GL running dd-wrt using WPA2.
~Jeffrey