anika200
make sure that you expand the tarball (tar xvjf) as root.
I just did it again (in Ubuntu) from the posted file and what I get is
root@OLPC:/media/TC-XO# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 21 18:35 boot
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 21 18:26 home
drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 Apr 21 20:56 opt
drwxrwxr-x 3 1001 staff 4096 Apr 21 18:52 tce
Files/folders with "tc" owner in TC show as "1001" in Fedora/Ubuntu
I do not know about the Apple Airport wireless. What is your encryption settings? Is it open or protected network? Only open/WEP is supported w/o WPA-supplicant
You are not suppose to setup VESA or anything. Should boot directly to Xorg desktop.
Have you checked that the download is OK? (md5sum?)
I would recommend to re-download and expand the file as su/sudo at the root of the "TC-XO"-labeled stick. etx2 is OK, but you can try ext3 just in case.
PS: do not use Xarchiver or another GUI utility to expand the .tar.bz2 file. Quite often (more in Fedora than Ubuntu, AFAICT) messes up the permissions