XO: wireless network and getting a devkey

[Blake St. Claire]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at 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