Configuring the OLPC XO Laptop for Home Wireless Network

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Configuring the OLPC XO Laptop for Home Wireless Network

Static IP Network

This section shows you how to get the OLPC XO onto a home wireless network where all of the wireless network clients uses static IP's. To get the OLPC XO onto such a network, the easiest method is to update the /etc/rc.local file with the correct configuration for your network. Place the following code into /etc/rc.local. Remember to replace each bracketed [] items with the correct network configuration information.

# home network
addNameServer ()
{
  ip="$1"
  file="/etc/resolv.conf"
  result=`cat "${file}" | grep -c "${ip}"`
  if [ ${result} -eq  0 ]
  then
    echo "nameserver ${ip}" >> "${file}"
  fi
}
/etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 [Static IP] up
/sbin/iwconfig eth0 mode managed
/sbin/iwconfig eth0 essid "[Wireless Network Name]"
/sbin/route add default gw [Gateway IP]
addNameServer "[DNS IP 1]"
addNameServer "[DNS IP 2]"

The /etc/rc.local file is executed every time you start up the OLPC XO. To return the XO to the original condition, just remove those lines. You can edit the /etc/rc.local file in the Terminal application, using this command (without double-quotes): "sudo nano /etc/rc.local"

Chieh Cheng
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:38:43 +0000

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