On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 18:34 +0930, Tom Daly wrote: > G'Day all, > > I am trying to setup up an XS server to support a deployment we > have of XO 1.5's in Timor Leste. I have setup a USB boot and have > worked through David Leeming's XS installation instructions and > I appear to have a working XS server, I can ping and access the > yum repos via eth0 (I used xsau-testing for my update). > > I am not using a wireless access point, I was figuring I could > just use the wireless of the small netbook to communicate with the > XOs (although I note that the wireless port of the XS server has > no IP allocated). Is this a bad assumption ? >
Well, kind of, I don't have a quick how-to on how to do that, and not all wifi card can act as an AP. Your in uncharted waters here but you would need to have in your wifi card's ifcfg-<device> file: DEVICE=<device> << edit this to be the same as ifcfg-<device> ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Wireless MODE=ad-hoc CHANNEL=1 << change to suit ESSID=school-mesh-0 << change to suit MASTER=lanbond0 SLAVE=yes NM_CONTROLLED=no HOTPLUG=yes This will place your wifi device as a slave of lanbond0 and should be bonded to it, picking up the ip info from it. > - is there something I should be reading about how get the XOs "using the XS" The XS model assumes 2 network cards, not nic card and one wifi. > - I want to be able to use the XS mainly for software distribution, so as to > avoid the folks in > Timor having to insert a flash drive into each XO ..is this possible if so > how and what do I read > to find out how to do this ? > Once the XO's can use the XS's dhcp server everything should just work. > thanks for any pointers/help > > regards > Tom Daly > Good luck, Jerry _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
