Re: Marvell

2007-09-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 06:12 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: There was an alternative libertas driver which uses the device in 'dumb' mode with the kernel's mac80211 stack. Coupled with mesh support in mac80211 that might make a somewhat suboptimal alternative to truly free firmware.

Re: Battery info

2007-09-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 18:54 -0400, Eduardo Silva wrote: who knows how can I get the battery capacity in the latest builds, ex: 4000mAh I don't believe we're given this information from the EC. Perhaps we could manage to work it out though -- Richard? -- dwmw2

wireless networking

2007-09-13 Thread Victor Lazzarini
Hi all, Got the delivery of two B4 machines and joined the list today. I am trying to test the system, so would like to get some help. I am starting with networking; I have not yet updated to the latest OS image, though. I got the two machines side by side. Shouldn't they see each other in

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
quote who=Sergey Udaltsov date=Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:17:52AM +0100 I do not see the part regarding the input methods up there. I think there should be 2 parts: one for GTK IM (probably void, since it is enabled by default with the locale), another for XIM - modifying xorg.conf (or using

Re: Marvell

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:27 +0200, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 06:12 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: There was an alternative libertas driver which uses the device in 'dumb' mode with the kernel's mac80211 stack. Coupled with mesh support in mac80211 that might make a

Re: wireless networking

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:08 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hi all, Got the delivery of two B4 machines and joined the list today. I am trying to test the system, so would like to get some help. I am starting with networking; I have not yet updated to the latest OS image, though. I got

Re: Marvell

2007-09-13 Thread Javier Cardona
On 9/13/07, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there patents on 802.11s? Even though it's an IEEE standard? http://standards.ieee.org/db/patents/pat802_11.html Scroll down to 802.11s. Apple, Microsoft and Fujitsu do at least provide the patent/application number. The other 8

Re: wireless networking

2007-09-13 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi For more info you could see. [1]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless [2]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mesh_Network_Details [3]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Networking [4]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mesh_Network_FAQ All of these are usefull but for your purpose [2] its interesting On 9/13/07, Dan

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Do you mean group switch? I have no idea what is the standard key for it on XO. Sergey On 9/13/07, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/13/2007 06:34 PM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup Looks ok. Would it make sense to have layout 'us,et'

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Yes, it's the rightmost key below enter. I updated the documentation. Do you need to use some xkb option for the switching key to work? Are you 100% it works by default, without XkbOption in xorg.conf (or -option parameter for setxkbmap)? I took freedom to fix a couple of words in the wiki, if

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Oh... yes... for the us layout, I think you need to say us(olpc2) because otherwise you get the plain multiply/divide mapping by default (switching is still available through alt, I think). I think we were going to have a rule: if layout is 'us' and model 'olpc', it should use symbols

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 09/13/2007 07:35 PM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: Oh... yes... for the us layout, I think you need to say us(olpc2) because otherwise you get the plain multiply/divide mapping by default (switching is still available through alt, I think). I think we were going to have a rule: if layout is 'us'