Really nice to have an XS on the XO for testing and showing people what
they can do with an XS.
The easy setup which doesn't even need an access point is really cool.
There are 3 points about XS 0.6 on XO I want to bring up:
1. How to shutdown the XS.
I couldn't find the information what is the easiest way to do it. I see
to easy options:
- Switching off power means the XS shuts down (I have attached an acmon
script a workmate wrote some time ago for a webserver on an XO which
does that using crontab)
- <ctrl>+<alt>+<delete> (on the XO <delete> is <fn>+<erase>) does a
reboot at the moment, but I think it could be easily changed to a more
useful shutdown.
2. How to change the timezone is missing in the documentation, but
probably necessary in most places.
3. Non XO computers can not connect to the school-mesh-0 of the XS on
XO. I wanted to do some testing and had just one XO (which was running
the XS). To be able to connect from a normal laptop I had to do the
following changes on the XS (the specific IP is important since various
services are bound to this IP):
ifdown lanbond0
iwconfig wmesh0 essid schoolserver
iwconfig wmesh0 mode ad-hoc
iwconfig wmesh0 channel 6
ifconfig wmesh0 172.18.0.1
Is there an easier way?
Cheers,
Philipp
#!/bin/bash
#******************************************************************
# Script: acmon
# Author: matt
# Purpose: checks if ac power gone from xo and schedules shutdown.
# If the ac power is restored and there is a shutdown in progress
# then the shutdown will be cancelled
# Should be run from /etc/crontab as follows :
# 00,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/acmon
# NOTE the cron interval needs to less than the SHTDWNTIME
# so that the server picks up if the power is back down
# Versions:
# 0.1 04/04/08 Initial Matt
# 0.2 05/04/08 added -h switch to shudown Matt
#******************************************************************
# Length of time before shutdown
SHTDWNTIME=15
# if there is no ac power
if [ $(cat /sys/class/power_supply/olpc-ac/online) = 0 ]; then
# if there no shutdown in progress then schedule on in 15 mins
pgrep shutdown >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
shutdown -h $SHTDWNTIME "power failed" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
logger -p info "acmon: Shutting down in $SHTDWNTIME minutes due to ac pwr
failure"
else
logger -p info "acmon: No ac power and shutdown already in progress"
fi
else
# if there is ac power and a shutdown in progress cancel it...
pgrep shutdown >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
shutdown -c >/dev/null 2>&1
logger -p info "acmon: Cancelling shutdown due to ac pwr restore"
fi
fi
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