On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:07:35PM -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > To the best of my knowledge this is an intentional omission for > antitheft reasons. Instructions on how to set the clock from OFW or > the command line are at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_Clock .
I think the task of setting the clock should be split from the problems that lead to it described in that page. It is far too scary looking. > If using the "date" command is not sufficient to permanently store > the change, "hwclock --systohc" or similar may also need to be used. "date" followed by a successful normal shutdown should work, because a normal shutdown runs hwclock ... but "hwclock --systohc" is handy in case you aren't sure that a normal shutdown will happen next. > In newer firmware builds (potentially newer than 11.3.0's), Open > Firmware can log into a Open, WEP, or WPA-PSK secured access point > and use NTP to set the time. To do this use the "essid" command > followed by the actual ESSID to set the ESSID, "wep" or "wpa" to set > the password, and "ntp-set-clock" (without any parameters) to query > a server from the public NTP pool and get the current time. The firmware included with 11.3.0 can already do ntp-set-clock with open wireless access points and USB Ethernet adapters. More recent firmware fixed WEP and WPA-PSK, if I recall correctly. (Nothing to do with WEP and WPA-PSK in Linux though, you can stay on older firmware for that.) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
