Secure corporate email on an OLPC ?!
Published by Glen on Thursday 03-Jan-2008
In a word - “Yes”.
It turns out it only takes a mild obsession to figure out how to get IBM’s Mobility Connect client (aka Lotus Mobile Connect) to run on an OLPC XO. the steps - as best as I can remember are:
- copy all of the IBMwc*.rpm files to a USB stick
- insert the stick in one of the OLPC USB ports (we will call this location ‘/media/USBSTICK’)
- open the terminal activity
- >su
- #yum install perl.i386
- #yum stdc++.so.5
- #cd /media/USBSTICK
- #rpm -vi gsk7bas-7.0-3.18.i386.rpm
- #rpm -vi IBMwc-nls-6.1-1.0.i386.rpm
- #rpm -vi IBMwc-ppp-6.1-1.0.i386.rpm
- #rpm -vi IBMwc-https-6.1-1.0.i386.rpm
- #rpm -vi IBMwc-6.1-1.0.i386.rpm
When you are ready to connect to the corporate network:
- open the terminal activity
- >su
- #wclient
The use of “su” may not be necessary
I should note, Domino Web Access 8 is not totally happy with the OLPC Browser. I’m not sure if it is too much JavaScript, too much behind-the-scenes XML transfers and processing or what. With DWA8 ‘lite’ I was able to read mail, compose a message (but the rich text widget had a hiccup), and save the email. the “send” button did not work. Some day, while sitting on hold I’ll have to figure this out further.
