[Sugar-devel] A network question

[Jerry Vonau]

On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 12:08 +1000, Peter Hewitt wrote:
> I'm finally starting to investigate networking on my XOs.
> 
> I have two XO 1s - Firmware Q2E45 Wireless 5.110.22.p23 Sugar .84.16 Build 852
> 
> Let's call them G (good) & B (bad)
> 
> The neighbourhood show three mesh symbols on both.
> 
> On G one pulses but on B ... no pulsing.
> 
> G finally says "Connected" on Mesh Network 1"
> 
> When I click "Connect" on Mesh Network 1 on B nothing changes.
> 
> ifconfig shows
> 
> eth0, lo & msh0 on G but just lo & msh0 on B
> 
> I'm sure they both connected fine when they first arrived about 6 months ago.
> 
> The only difference is that G has been worked very hard but B has mostly 
> been resting.
> 
> Do I assume a hardware problem? Is there any further testing I can do?
> 
> Thanks ... Peter

I'd check "my computer" to see if the firmware version is being
displayed. You can do the OFW hardware tests.  

Jerry