James,
Thanks for the quick reply - you are correct. I was debugging in isolation and didn't realize these were dumb access points without DHCPD. I've hooked it up to the new server I brought and voila, we're up and running. Now to get XS/browse working smoothly and they should be off and running. The old server appears to have some messed up DHCP settings so nobody was getting IP addresses.
Thanks! Brian On 8/8/2012 1:35 AM, James Cameron wrote:
G'day Brian, It does sound like the access points or the network are not providing DHCP service, given that your iPad and laptop both get 169.254 addresses. They do that in the absence of DHCP. You will have to add a DHCP service to the network, by either: 1. configuring the server to provide DHCP, which is probably the usual method for OLPC XS deployment, or 2. configuring the wireless routers to each provide a DHCP range, or 3. configuring an upstream router to provide DHCP. Using iwconfig and ifconfig manually on an XO is only practical if you turn off Network Manager. I'm sorry I don't know exactly which solution is best, as I'm not sufficiently familiar with OLPC XS. But I know you have limited time, so I've given you what I can.
-- Brian Ghidinelli http://MotorsportReg.com t. 415.462.5603 f. 415.839.5210 _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
