[NBLUG/talk] WPA2 with an OLPC laptop?

[Molly Fisher]

Does any of this help?
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WPA_Manual_Setting
You might ask on IRC. The #olpc-help channel at irc.freenode.net is  
pretty helpful.

Molly


On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> I finally got my OLPC XO laptop about two weeks ago (ironically, the
> day before I left for Spring Break).  I've been playing around with it
> for a few days, and one thing that's bugging me is its apparent lack
> of support for WPA2.
>
> I have an AirPort Extreme base station, and it's set up with WPA2
> encryption and a REALLY long shared key.  I don't want to turn off the
> encryption on my network (and downgrading to WPA1 or WEP doesn't cut
> it, either), but I know the XO isn't going to be terribly useful if I
> can't go online with it.  And my last attempt at WiFi on ANY
> Linux-based system was about 5 years ago and a complete failure.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> P.S. I do plan to attend one of the OLPC meetings; I haven't been to
> one yet because I've been too busy every weekend that the meetings
> have been scheduled.  Ugh.  Hopefully that will change shortly.
>
>
> -- 
> Lincoln Peters
> <anfrind at gmail.com>
>
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