XO: wireless network and getting a devkey

[Michael Solberg]

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.