[IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Tue Sep 13 02:24:58 EDT 2011


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 02:03:45AM -0400, John Watlington wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:55 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> > I searched for ntp-set-clock using Google:
> > 
> > 	site:wiki.laptop.org "ntp-set-clock"
> 
> I learn some new function of OFW every week!
> It looks like that function requires the presence of an access point
> called "OLPCOFW" which provides DHCP and connectivity to an NTP server
> with name "time", "172.18.0.1", or one of the various NTP pool
> servers.   Did I misrepresent it ?

Only slightly.  It works great with a supported USB to ethernet adaptor,
or if you type the ESSID of your WiFi first:

	ok wifi thingamebob
	ok ntp-set-clock

If no ESSID is given, the default is OLPCOFW.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/


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