> I still don't understand which version you are comparing to. Can't you > just go to the control panel and check?
That only gets me the currently installed version. It takes a while to switch back to older versions. Let me try again. I'm using WPA, version 2 on a Linksys WRT54GL running their stock firmware. In the past few weeks, I've had 3 versions of software on my XO. I started with os759 from last Sept. I think that is what was released. Most of the time, when I power up or Restart, it connects automatically. I have to reboot a dozen times to get a case that fails. I could time the reboot process by starting a ping to my XO, rebooting the XO, stopping the ping, and computing the lost packets. There was no human activity in that process. A while ago, I tried the software that was announced in the message that started this thread. That's what I called 1352. It came from: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/staging/build9/devel_jffs2 That directory contains: xo-1-olpc-stream-staging-build-9-20090106_1352-devel_jffs2.img which is what I installed. That web page says: OLPC Build staging-9 (devel_jffs2) Looks like I should have called it build 9. Sorry for the confusion. I've never seen that connect automatically. Most of the time, it worked when I poke the icon. A few days ago, I tried build 25. For me, it acts just the same as build 9 (1352) > What is wpa.sh and why do you have to use it? You do know that the OS > supports WPA out-of-the-box (although unreliable with some APs), > right? It's a shell script that sets up the crypto stuff. I think it was announced on devel ages ago. My copy is dated Dec 2007. It writes to: conf="/home/olpc/.sugar/default/nm/networks.cfg" It is option 4 from: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WPA_Manual_Setting I use it because I have a big long password. It's much easier to select/stuff than type in. Is this the problem? Does the new/current NetworkManager and/or Sugar need some info in some other location? Somebody recognizes my AP since it has star on the icon and I don't need to enter a password when I poke the icon. > Did you wait sufficiently long enough (perhaps as long as 5 minutes) > for the XO to check mesh channels for school servers before consulting > the history of infrastructure networks? I wait until the icons stop blinking. I haven't carefully reverse engineered the pattern and/or I'm not sure it's always the same, but it's something like scan the mesh channels, try my AP, then scan the mesh channels again. That takes a while, but it's less than 5 minutes. I have waited more than 5 minutes a few times when I got distracted doing something else. That didn't work. > Is the AP is marked as a favourite when it appears on the network > view? It should have a star against the circular icon. Yes the icon for my AP has the little star. (That's after running Wpa.sh I don't remember looking before running Wpa.sh) The star is how I find the icon to poke. There are several other APs within range, usually 2 to 4. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
