chanson

My XO-1 came with release 650 of the OLPC operating system, Sugar OS. However, according to the OLPC wiki the latest stable version of Sugar OS is 653. Updating your OS is simple, just follow the instructions once you get online with it.

I was able to get on my home WPA network — run by an AirPort Extreme (the pod, not the box) — by laboriously typing in the hex version of the WPA key. Fortunately I got it right; then it was just a matter of pulling up the Terminal activity, and running:

$ su -
# olpc-update -rv 653

That's it! Now I'm running 653 instead of 650, which fixes a few bugs.

You can also install updates from a USB memory stick, since the XO-1 can boot from a signed OS image file on a USB flash drive. This is useful if you want to download an image on your Mac or PC — say because you can't get online with your XO-1, and need the wireless networking fixes — and then just install it.