XO: wireless network and getting a devkey

[Eric Sandeen]

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 ;)