Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: "XOs cannot act as WiFi access points"
El 16/03/15 a las 22:31, James Cameron escibió: > Why would Google and the carriers want to have people bypass them? It > makes no business sense. ;-) Oh very timely with news about this beauty here: https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel It's a tunnel for Internet traffic thru "sponsored" facebook chat, bypassing the atrocious net-neutrality monster that is Zuckerberg's Internet.Org initiative. Could this perhaps ever be ported into an XO activity :-) Pair it with hotspot mode and voilá, user liberation. I bet they block it before a few months or less if it becomes easy to use. Regards, Sebastian ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: "XOs cannot act as WiFi access points"
If I recall correctly, Android devices cannot connect to Ad-hoc networks out-of-the-box. There may be some third party utilities which allow certain devices to do this with varying levels of success. Instead, either one device is configured as an AP, or a newer-than-Adhoc standard called WiFi Direct is used. Android devices may also communicate amongst themselves using Bluetooth, although creating mesh networks/Internet gateways again would require third-party utilities. One such utility (Open Garden) partnered with OLPC for the XO Tablet ( http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/one-laptop-per-child-partners-with-open-garden-to-grow-internet-everywhere-220497161.html ). In general, generic Android to Android device communication was an unsolved problem the last time I looked into this. On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:36 PM, James Cameron wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:30:30PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> > On March 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM James Cameron wrote: >> > > >> > > There's no need to go as far as configuring as an access point when >> > > ad-hoc networking will work, with suitable configuration of the other >> > > laptops connecting to it. >> > >> > Has sugar addressed http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3708? >> >> Why would you use Sugar? >> > > We'd love to keep some/any version of Sugar on the XO if possible, even if > just so the librarian can putter. > > Important: how compatible is the XO's Ad-Hoc networking with generic > Android tablets/phones and generic/vintage cheap laptops already out there > in the world? Any other low-to-medium complexity protocols we should be > considering, for XO-1.5 and higher especially, that might plausibly sail > with a few weeks of hacking? (that is if a genuine WiFi hotspot brings > more compatibility) > > Anyway: scalability's not a requirement (in this case!) as such community > libraries are tiny, having a couple WiFi devices attached generally, rarely > more. > > -- > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Unleash Kids" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to unleashkids+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: "XOs cannot act as WiFi access points"
Back then, I was dogfooding Sugar 0.94 because I had to deploy it to the children of Peru. Also, you can image, I had various XOs around. In my vision, Sugar should grow to be a useful desktop for a person of any age who likes to learn with simplicity, collaboration and reflection. If it's not too much to ask, I'd like it stunning as well. That would be a topic for IAEP [Design] tag I guess. :-) Regards, Sebastian El 16/03/15 a las 21:36, James Cameron escibió: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:30:30PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> On March 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM James Cameron wrote: >>> There's no need to go as far as configuring as an access point when >>> ad-hoc networking will work, with suitable configuration of the other >>> laptops connecting to it. >> Has sugar addressed http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3708? > Why would you use Sugar? > ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: "XOs cannot act as WiFi access points"
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:36 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:30:30PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > On March 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM James Cameron wrote: > > > > > > There's no need to go as far as configuring as an access point when > > > ad-hoc networking will work, with suitable configuration of the other > > > laptops connecting to it. > > > > Has sugar addressed http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3708? > > Why would you use Sugar? > We'd love to keep some/any version of Sugar on the XO if possible, even if just so the librarian can putter. Important: how compatible is the XO's Ad-Hoc networking with generic Android tablets/phones and generic/vintage cheap laptops already out there in the world? Any other low-to-medium complexity protocols we should be considering, for XO-1.5 and higher especially, that might plausibly sail with a few weeks of hacking? (that is if a genuine WiFi hotspot brings more compatibility) Anyway: scalability's not a requirement (in this case!) as such community libraries are tiny, having a couple WiFi devices attached generally, rarely more. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: "XOs cannot act as WiFi access points"
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:30:30PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On March 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM James Cameron wrote: > > > > There's no need to go as far as configuring as an access point when > > ad-hoc networking will work, with suitable configuration of the other > > laptops connecting to it. > > Has sugar addressed http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3708? Why would you use Sugar? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
