WPA Manual Setting

If you are having trouble connecting to an specific access point, you may want to try using this simple script: http://wiki.laptop.org/images/4/44/Wpa.sh. Once this procedure is successful, you will not have to do it again as the settings will be remembered when you reboot.

Instructions:

1. Copy http://wiki.laptop.org/images/4/44/Wpa.sh to a USB stick.
2. On your XO, open the terminal activity from the taskbar on the home page.
3. Determine the name of your USB stick (if you do not know it), by typing: df
4. Look for the line that starts with /dev/sda1 and read across to get the name of your USB stick. It will start with /media/<USBname>.
5. Copy the Wpa.sh file from the USB stick by typing: cp /media/<USBname> .
6. Execute the following command to have administrative privileges "su -"
7. Execute the script "sh wpa.sh"
8. Follow the instructions on screen, providing the SSID, passphrase and WPA version of your Access Point
9. Reboot the XO (as instructed in the end of step 6)
10. Go to the mesh view and click on the circle of your AP, that should be showing as

open now (no lock attached to the circle)