On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:31 AM, <r...@apc.edu.ph> wrote: > I'm not sure exactly how it happened but I did finally get a successful > registration.
The XS works in mysterious ways... ;-) > To recap, the client machine is an MSI Wind U100 booting from blueberry-SOAS. > I changed the access point. It is now a D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G > (DWL-2100AP). We did the procedure described in > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Access_Points under > the topic "Zoom Wireless-G 4400". OK -- that sounds reasonable. > We also set a static IP for the server--though I noticed that on a cold boot > the server seems to get its address via DHCP and needs a network restart to > get the static address back. Very odd -- the scripts / configuration that execute are the same regardless of whether it is from cold boot or network restart. > The first 2-3 attempts resulted in "Registration failed" messages on the > netbook. The last one succeeded. Trying to think what changed, I recall > that when I looked in the Neighborhood view both access points that I had > used were visible, and the netbook was associated with the old one (Linksys). > So I disconnected from it and then connected to the D-Link one. Associating to the right AP is a good way to succeed ;-) -- keeping this in mind, your other Sugar clients should register on the first go. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
