[dundee] OLPC's - Factory build 650

[gordon dunlop]

I have just got the 2 OLPC's to play around with (last on the list).
With the factory default build version 650 WPA is not working (nobody
mentioned this). An internet connection can be made via a USB wired
ethernet as the Fedora operating system picks it up O.K. The only
problem here is that an internet update only works with build version
653 or higher, due to a bug in the OLPC-update rpm. An updated rpm can
be downloaded and rpm forced to correct this. I decided that I wanted
to update the firmware and o.s. image to the latest stable build (703)
via USB. I down loaded the image etc. and it only took 10 minutes to
do the upgrading via USB, nice and simple, I had to put on the
activities separately via USB as this was not included with the o.s.
image, I used the latest activity version and the menu bar looks a lot
better. So now we have both laptops updated to the latest versions and
WPA is working perfectly. To update the o.s. in the future,  all you
have to do now is open up the terminal:
$ su -l
$ olpc-update <version no.>

Gordon