[mdlug] one laptop per child review

Brian Hurley brian at detroitindustrial.org
Fri Jan 18 21:31:26 EST 2008


On Friday 18 January 2008, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Brian Hurley wrote:
> > I wrote a review of the Old Laptop Per Child XO laptop (formery known as
> > the $100 laptop.
> >
> > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/17/review_xo_laptop_hands_on/
>
> Good review so far, I'm on page 3 where I found this:
> > The XO couldn't initially see my Actiontec GT704-WG DSL router.
> > Switching the ESSID from 9 to 5 allowed the XO find it and connect.
> > There were reports on the OLPC Wiki about similar connectivity issues
> > with other routers.
>
> So did you change you ESSID from 9 *characters* to 5, or did you change
> your one character ESSID from "9" to "5", or what?

I changed the one character 9 to 5.

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Brian Hurley
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