[NBLUG/talk] WPA2 with an OLPC laptop?

[Lincoln Peters]

I finally got my OLPC XO laptop about two weeks ago (ironically, the
day before I left for Spring Break).  I've been playing around with it
for a few days, and one thing that's bugging me is its apparent lack
of support for WPA2.

I have an AirPort Extreme base station, and it's set up with WPA2
encryption and a REALLY long shared key.  I don't want to turn off the
encryption on my network (and downgrading to WPA1 or WEP doesn't cut
it, either), but I know the XO isn't going to be terribly useful if I
can't go online with it.  And my last attempt at WiFi on ANY
Linux-based system was about 5 years ago and a complete failure.

Any suggestions?


P.S. I do plan to attend one of the OLPC meetings; I haven't been to
one yet because I've been too busy every weekend that the meetings
have been scheduled.  Ugh.  Hopefully that will change shortly.


-- 
Lincoln Peters
<anfrind at gmail.com>