GPS on XO

2009-04-04 Thread Hal Murray
From the Testing summary Roadmap-3 Map of California came up, could move around easily. Interesting timing. Thanks. I'm about to go on a long drive and it would be fun to be able to watch where I'm going on my XO. I've got a USB GPS device that shows up on lsusb as a Prolific serial

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Here's a build of the F11 beta release for XO:   http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/f11-beta/ Instructions on flashing are at http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/. How does this relate to the recent SoaS builds? I am

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-04 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 12:13:36PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: Here's a build of the F11 beta release for XO:   http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/f11-beta/ Instructions on flashing are at http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/. How does this relate to the recent SoaS builds?

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-04 Thread Peter Robinson
From the Fedora perspective this is the latest beta release Is this statement meant to be equivalent to this is the latest F11 beta? Now I read it, a fairly pointless statement should have coffee _BEFORE_ replying to emails in the morning. It has all the latest Sugar stuff in it but

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-04 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 01:05:39PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Here's a build of the F11 beta release for XO:   http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/f11-beta/ Instructions on flashing are at

Re: Recompiling the firmware

2009-04-04 Thread Mitch Bradley
Hello I couldn't find a lot of informations about firmware recompilation. From what I've read, I think I can get it from http://openbios.org/viewvc/?root=OpenFirmware But how do I recompile it, to get a new .rom file ready to by flashed ? (the same question appears on

Re: GPS on XO

2009-04-04 Thread pgf
hal wrote: From the Testing summary Roadmap-3 Map of California came up, could move around easily. Interesting timing. Thanks. I'm about to go on a long drive and it would be fun to be able to watch where I'm going on my XO. I've got a USB GPS device that shows up on

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: I'd test Soas-2 (what I'm running on my XO now).  Just a personal opinion. Yeah, that's what I am thinking of doing. Is there stuff that is known to be 'broken' on the XO? IIRC, the NM there can't handle the mesh

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Martin, How does this relate to the recent SoaS builds? They're very similar, indeed. The rawhide-xo builds have both GNOME and Sugar for you to choose between, and we can imagine putting an OLPC kernel on to the XO builds to get better support, but otherwise they're pretty identical. -

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-04 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
I have made an outline for a google spreadsheet that tries to provide a checklist of information about XO compatibility for various possible distributions that an XO owner could choose to put on their hardware. Would it be appropriate for knowledgeable persons to fill out this checklist for the

Re: Recompiling the firmware

2009-04-04 Thread Mitch Bradley
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: ok flash disk:\q2e39a.rom I should know this already, but... n00bIf the XO has been unlocked with a developer key, will it accept unsigned firmware upgrades?/n Yes. Develop key

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-04 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Chris, Out of interest does OFW support ext4? I've tried today to get a SD card to boot using your image with no luck, but shoved a usb key in that has the standard F11 beta on it and the kernel booted straight up but got no further. Peter On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Chris Ball

Re: [Server-devel] phantom USB-Ethernet problem

2009-04-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: Please disregard my frantic e-mails about the USB-Ethernet problem. It turns out that the USB-Ethernet NIC was not at fault, even when using a USB 1.1. USB-Ethernet. However, I would not recommend using it on the LAN side,

Re: [Server-devel] phantom USB-Ethernet problem

2009-04-04 Thread Bryan Berry
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:16 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: Please disregard my frantic e-mails about the USB-Ethernet problem. It turns out that the USB-Ethernet NIC was not at fault, even when using a USB 1.1.