Hi Paul
many keys only work intermittently on some of these XOs. particularly
- frame key and the key next to it, search key, function key, hand
keys, divide/multiply key.
is this reproducible in the OFW diagnostics? (test /keyboard)
we did diagnostics check, they intermittently
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@hrdnz.com wrote:
OLPC release 11 Leonidas
Sugar 0.84.2
Firmware Q3A11
Yeah, those OSs don't report themselves correctly. The XOs probably
were sent with os29 or os30. The only way to make sure is to install
it yourself :-/
(Unless cjb can
/boot/olpc_version usually contains the right number.
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@hrdnz.com wrote:
OLPC release 11 Leonidas
Sugar 0.84.2
Firmware Q3A11
Yeah, those OSs don't report themselves correctly. The XOs probably
were sent
2009/10/21 Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org:
/boot/olpc_version usually contains the right number.
no such file or directory
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2009/10/21 Tabitha Roder tabi...@hrdnz.com:
2009/10/21 Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org:
/boot/olpc_version usually contains the right number.
no such file or directory
Maybe you don't have /boot mounted, or maybe there is a bug in the
build system now that we moved to a separate boot partition.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
Maybe you don't have /boot mounted, or maybe there is a bug in the
build system now that we moved to a separate boot partition. We should
probably write the version on both partitions.
Yep - /etc/olpc_build is probably a good
I don't like the idea of a second copy - A man with 2 watches never
knows what time it is.
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
Maybe you don't have /boot mounted, or maybe there is a bug in the
build system now that we moved to a
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote:
I don't like the idea of a second copy - A man with 2 watches never knows
what time it is.
If we can make sure /boot is mounted, a symlink -- will do :-) The
convention is that the OS build is identified by someting in the
On Oct 20 2009, at 19:04, Tabitha Roder was caught saying:
no mesh network showing in neighbourhood
My understanding is that mesh is not currently supported in the
WLAN firmware for the new chips. I am not sure what the plan of
action is in regards to mesh support for 1.5.
the new record
2009/10/21 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
Maybe you don't have /boot mounted, or maybe there is a bug in the
build system now that we moved to a separate boot partition. We should
probably write the version on
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:18:54AM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
The convention is that the OS build is identified by someting in the
form of /etc/foo-release (lsb-release).
The SoaS plan is to create /etc/soas-release, FWIW.
cheers,
m
Martin
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/10/21 Tabitha Roder tabi...@hrdnz.com:
2009/10/21 Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org:
/boot/olpc_version usually contains the right number.
no such file or directory
Maybe you don't have /boot mounted, or maybe there is a
mitch wrote:
I don't like the idea of a second copy - A man with 2 watches never
knows what time it is.
but in this case, both watches would be right, and that would be
very interesting information indeed. :-)
(i.e., they should never be out of sync, and if they are, then it's
better to
Hi,
The media is split into a /boot ext2 partition with the rest
setup as ext4 so that OFW can read olpc.fth and do other
operations without needing to have support for ext4. I noticed
the inidicator too and find it very confusing from an end-user UI
perspective. One should
Hi,
what is the version sequence in update_url that the Sugar activity
updater tries on F11-1.5?
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update#Activity_groups
- Bert -
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Hello pals, some time ago I did some research on the behavior from the XO in
places with more than one access point with the same SSID, and the results
from this test weren't much god. As some of you may remember basically what
my study said was that the connection jumps from one AP to another too
On 21.10.2009, at 18:02, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Hi,
what is the version sequence in update_url that the Sugar activity
updater tries on F11-1.5?
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update#Activity_groups
Err, I meant this spec:
==
On 21.10.2009, at 18:31, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 21.10.2009, at 18:02, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Hi,
what is the version sequence in update_url that the Sugar activity
updater tries on F11-1.5?
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update#Activity_groups
Err, I meant this spec:
Tomeu,
Thank you so much. We appreciate your wonderful support as always.
We have been working on localizing Deducto and Color Deducto to Spanish, and
will be sending the Spanish po file to olpc-sur for review within this week.
We have made some revisions to Deducto and Color Deducto based on
Dan,
Appreciate your wonderful feedback. Thank you.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Dan Krejsa dan.kre...@gmail.com wrote:
A few comments:
- I found the help and instructions not terribly clear. I eventually
figured
out what to do, but I'm not sure many children would have the
Is it possible to save and retrieve files from an XO to an XS server. I guess
it would be similar to a network folder in windows that can be accessed by any
XO.
Josh Totoro
Charter School Management Inc.
302 E 5th St.
Chester, PA 19013
(610) 447-0400 x329
jtot...@chartersmi.com
Tomeu,
Mikus reported an interesting bug on both the XO-1 and XO-1.5 running F11 -
Color Deducto activity comes up without color. Please find the logs attached
- http://pastebin.com/m7fb5ca12 .
Wish if you could suggest pointers to debug this issue.
Thank you.
Regards,
Manu
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 20:28, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote:
Tomeu,
Mikus reported an interesting bug on both the XO-1 and XO-1.5 running F11 -
Color Deducto activity comes up without color. Please find the logs attached
- http://pastebin.com/m7fb5ca12 .
Wish if you could suggest
On Oct 20 2009, at 19:04, Tabitha Roder was caught saying:
no mesh network showing in neighbourhood
My understanding is that mesh is not currently supported in the
WLAN firmware for the new chips. I am not sure what the plan of
action is in regards to mesh support for 1.5.
For laptops to
Hi,
But I don't know if NetworkManager and Sugar are fully organized
to do Ad Hoc networking, presence, messaging, file sharing, etc
in the absence of an access point.
They are; the final piece was work by Tomeu Vizoso to add a UI for
creating/joining ad-hoc networks in Sugar, which
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 02:26:28PM -0200, Andr?s Nacelle wrote:
Hello pals, some time ago I did some research on the behavior from the
XO in places with more than one access point with the same SSID, and
the results from this test weren't much god. As some of you may
remember basically what my
On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Tiago Marques wrote:
Hasn't mesh proved useful in deployments?
No, it hasn't. We actively discourage anyone from using it, and I'm
not aware of any successful applications of it except in test and
demonstration situations.
I suspect you are, like many, many
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote:
http://dev.laptop.org/~wmb/q3a13c.rom
This is a brown bag release whose main purpose is to test the
effectiveness of Richard's EC fixes for the keyboard stops working
problem.
Did 4 reboot cycles with q3a13c and haven't
2009/10/22 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com:
They are -- but it's pretty awkward to activate. I am arguing that
ad-hoc networking with a preset ESSID, and Salut should be the
transparent fallback. Just like the mesh was on earlier releases.
We already discussed this a lot in another
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 07:48:06AM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote:
Ad-hoc will work well for the cases where the children get together in
a small space and explicitly create a throwaway network. If it is
created automatically, I predict we will just get an unreliable mess.
And we won't really be
No mesh:
Just checking this scenario I am a teacher and have just been handed 5
XOs for my students. I am told you can have a child start writing a story
and then have the other children join in to write together.
How does the teacher do this - in less than 100 words and not one word
G'day Tabitha,
I think I can relax you a bit ... there seems to have been a minor
misunderstanding caused by ambiguous terms.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:06:15PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote:
No mesh:
Just checking this scenario I am a teacher and have just been
handed 5 XOs for my
2009/10/22 Tabitha Roder tabi...@hrdnz.com:
No mesh:
Just checking this scenario I am a teacher and have just been handed 5
XOs for my students. I am told you can have a child start writing a story
and then have the other children join in to write together.
How does the teacher do this -
2009/10/22 James Cameron qu...@laptop.org:
You can manually establish an Ad-Hoc network between several XO-1.5's in
build os32 using the following temporary procedure:
1. start Terminal and become root,
eek! no need to get dirty; you can create an ad-hoc network from a
single click in the
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 06:41:54 pm Ed McNierney wrote:
I also want to point out that in cases where 802.11s mesh operation is
desirable, the Open802.11s stack (http://www.open80211s.org/) should
be investigated. There's no reason Open802.11s software can't be used
to make an XO a Mesh
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:24:08AM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote:
eek! no need to get dirty; you can create an ad-hoc network from a
single click in the frame, and then the others can join it from the
neighborhood view.
Sounds neat. Doesn't work. #9540 raised.
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:31:28PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:06:15PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote:
Just checking this scenario I am a teacher and have just been
handed 5 XOs for my students. I am told you can have a child start
writing a story and then have
Not by default. The only way this can be achieved now is by backing up
the XO to the XS and then retrieving the backup from the XS to the XO.
On Oct 21, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Josh Totoro wrote:
Is it possible to save and retrieve files from an XO to an XS
server. I guess it would be similar to
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Josh Totoro jtot...@chartersmi.com wrote:
Can you back up specific files, or does it back up the whole XO?
It will back up the whole Journal, but not the whole XO.
But if you are trying to publish specific files, you have Moodle
installed, and doing automagic
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