Re: [Sugar-devel] XO wireless interface problem when AP down

2009-08-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Andres, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 15:50, Andrés Nacelleanace...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: Hello, I´ve been working recently with something like 70 XO and during the tests where I had 2 Access Point working, it happened that the electric supply from one of this failed without me realising. So

HostAP on XO's Libertas

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_as_AP Has anyone been playing with this? How well does it work? Throughput? Number of connected nodes? Does it run stable for extended periods of time? What kernel and hostap revs did you use? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org --

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: F11 testing for XS

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/10 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Over the last could of weeks Jerry's been exploring the F11 rebase. Here are his notes. Thanks. I agree that the Python stuff will be fixed with a rebuild (perhaps with some trivial spec file tweaks) and ejabberd should be too. olpc-contents

Good intro boot to Linux management... ?

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
This is somewhat offtopic but important when we get to work with deployments. (And working with deployment teams is how we get laptops in the hands of kids, so it is right there where it matters...) Some local teams have very low exposure to Linux -- this is regional, and has a multitude of

Re: Good intro boot to Linux management... ?

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/10 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: This is somewhat offtopic but important when we get to work with deployments. (And working with deployment teams is how we get laptops in the hands of kids, so it is right there where it matters...) Some local teams have very low exposure

Candidate paper cut bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
In the _completely hypothetical_ case that I had some time and chance to spin a 8.2.x release aimed at fixing the paper cuts[1] and low-risk bugs that hinder XO-1 deployability _today_ in the field - have *you* got any candidates? Tell me about them :-) I am specially hoping to round up bugs that

Re: Candidate paper cut bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
chance ... a 8.2.x release aimed at fixing the paper cuts[1] and low-risk bugs that hinder XO-1 deployability _today_ in the field - have *you* got any candidates? Tell me about them :-) I myself don't really patch -- mostly all I do is to add things to make the XO more usable (as a Linux

New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-10 Thread Steven M. Parrish
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/xo-1/builds/ Added Typing Turtle Words activities, added to favorites as well. Added ntp, ntpdate to base OS. Create custom .asoundrc file for TamTam here are the file differences since os4 -atlas-sse-3.8.3-4.fc11.i586

New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-10 Thread Steven M. Parrish
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/xo-1/builds/ Added Typing Turtle Words activities, added to favorites as well. Added ntp, ntpdate to base OS. Create custom .asoundrc file for TamTam here are the file differences since os4 -atlas-sse-3.8.3-4.fc11.i586

pippy on F11

2009-08-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The webpage for Pippy says it ought to work with Sugar 0.82-0.86. Many of the Examples in Pippy include the line 'import pippy'. Ran Pippy-35.xo on build os5. As has been my experience with many F11 builds, when I tried to run any Pippy-provided example which included that coding line, what I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate paper cut bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: In the _completely hypothetical_ case that I had some time and chance to spin a 8.2.x release aimed at fixing the paper cuts[1] and low-risk bugs that hinder XO-1 deployability _today_ in the field - have *you* got any candidates? Tell me

Re: [Server-devel] how to copy activation leases to XS?

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/10 Joshua N Pritikin jpriti...@pobox.com: Is there an easy way to disable security on 30 laptops besides requesting dev keys, etc? You could send the 30 serial numbers to OLPC and ask if they will create developer keys on your behalf. Daniel

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: Simple Digital Library Index System

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Mike Dawsonmikeofmanches...@gmail.com wrote: The way it's designed is that the Java program just runs once to generate the indexes. (...) This can then be served by bare apache. right! That's exactly what I was hoping to hear, and quite exceptional too. Most

Re: [Server-devel] iptables generation (was Re: pppd restarting mysteriously)

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: Here is the script I promised Martin. Right - thanks for that! I assume it works well and it's been tested for normal and ppp0 connectivity over there. How do you trigger it? Can you load the ruleset even if ppp0 is

Re: [Server-devel] how to copy activation leases to XS?

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Uruguay, but I can't find it now. I think I posted it on the list - ah, 'cat-leases' http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/012756.html And it's now part of xs-activation, so gets installed in any XS.