The Kindle 3’s default networking stack doesn’t support the XS’s network scheme, so DHCP won’t work. However, we can manually connect with a static IP. Tested and verified on a Kindle 3 (wifi and 3G) running Firmware 3.1.I was a bit stymied at first, as I could see the DHCP offer in /var/log/messages, but some… Read more The Kindle and the XS
Month: March 2011
XO Internet Sharing with F11 Builds
My original OLPC News Post for Debian/Ubuntu on the XO:http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4748.0 These directions work with F11 on the XO-1, but I’ve only tested os860. YMMV and all that. 860 has dnsmasq already installed. So it’s a “simple” matter of configuration. Do this: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Edit /etc/sysctl.conf with these lines at the bottom: net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1 Back… Read more XO Internet Sharing with F11 Builds