UNC Linux Users Group

[Tim Cline <tcline AT email.unc.edu>]

My acknowledgement to Uncle Dave Moffat and Alan Hoyle for following info:

To get onto UNC-1:

Register MAC address.

Then

su -

cd /etc/init.d

./NetworkManager stop

./network stop

iwconfig eth0 essid "UNC-1" key thehexkey

[Use the UNC-1 key where I wrote "thehexkey"]

/sbin/dhclient -1 eth0

[Dave's notes indicate that "This sequence removes all the hot-spots 
from the Neighborhood view, but UNC-1 shows up on the Home view. When 
you hover over it, or click on it, it will ask you to enter the key 
again. Be sure to specify hex."

For me, I just ran "iwconfig" until the ESSID changed from "" to 
"UNC-1". Note: the hex key is input without the leading zeros; i.e., not 
"010203" but just "123...". Also, the installed browser works, you don't 
have to install Opera. TC]

I have not determined how to restore the original Neighborhood view,
except to reboot.

David

[Note from alan:
I haven't tried it, but I suspect the following might work:

go back into the terminal
$ su -
# killall dhclient
# /etc/init.d/network start
# /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
]




Regards,
Tim Cline




Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
> If anybody wants to play with one of the XO OLPCs, I've got one for the 
> weekend! 
>
> There are a couple things that need to try to happen for the customer 
> here at the Dev Office that bought it - installing Opera and connecting 
> to UNC-1 (or at least determining the MAC address so that it can be 
> registered).  I've tried ifconfig and iwconfig, but their version of 
> bash has neither (I tried 'which' on both).  Be prepared to see a 
> non-KDE, non-GNOME interface.  I'm not sure what the interface is called.