Questions from New Users

Schoolchildren reportedly are able to discover how to use an XO without adult assistance, except for features that are not currently working correctly. For those who are having trouble, and in particular those who have run into bugs and unfinished features, help is available. Start with the draft manual.

If the available documentation doesn't help, please post your questions here. Somebody is sure to answer.

These questions will become input to the documentation process. So even having trouble becomes a contribution to the success of the program.

Questions

Anything about the XO hardware or software that you can't figure out and is not documented. My WiFi network uses 64 bit WEP encoding. when I try to connect in Neighborhood, a pop up box asks for a 128 n\bit key. The 64 bit key is not accepted. Do I have to change the network? Is there a way to have the laptop accept 64 bit encoding?

Issues

Bugs, unfinished features. In the first-time user startup instructions - there is no mention of the inital User Name: entry required

- my experience was that after typing the child's name, the NEXT> button on screen did not work - it wasn't until I pressed the keyboard ENTER key that I got the system to actually start and bring up the UI.

The REGISTER feature never confirmed in any way what was registered - is this a central registration of the machine - or is this in a dynamic ad-hoc network?

Have not seen Wiki entries for the following: - simple instructions for laoding new apps (Activities) - re-imaging the system - where to get image and how to re-install OS - how to install patches and upgrades tot he OS

[thank you]

WPA WiFi

From OLPC Ship.2 Software Release Notes

We continue to work on improving support for WPA encryption, and hope to have a better solution in our Update.1 release. In the meanwhile, WPA Manual Setting documents procedures for manual use of WPA encrypted access points.