[jalburty]

For the wired network connection to appear in Windows 7 apparently you must have a router connected to the ClassMate. Otherwise you don't see the Local Area Connection at all. Similarly, to create a wireless connection there must be wireless networks in the area and you must also have turned on the Classmate's wireless networking using function key + F1. This took me quite a while to understand.

Some non-rookie teams like ours will also run into another problem when trying to assign an IP address of 10.xx.yy.5 to a new wireless conection on the Classmate: even though the old wired connection is not shown, it still has 10.xx.yy.5 stored as the IP address of the Classmate. An error message tells you this when you try to create the wireless connection using the same address - unless you first power up the router, connect it to the Classmate and change the IP address in the wired connection to something else, such as 10.xx.yy.15. Once this was done I could create the wireless network connection and give it the needed 10.xx.yy.5 static IP (using v4 TCP/IP, not v6).

Finally, since all this configuration work was done under the Developer account on the Classmate, I needed to check the 'automatically connect at start up' checkbox of the new wireless connection in order to allow the Classmate to stay connected when I switched to the Driver account.