Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-14 Thread Rob Savoye
Noah Kantrowitz wrote: We can always lock the mesh interface to a single channel, and keep the normal APs on the two others. Also turning down the Tx power will reduce interference with normal 802.11b/g. As an absolute fall-back, there is a snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-14 Thread Javier Cardona
Rob, After brainstorming with some other folks at Hacker's, our feeling is the problem was caused by having multiple APs with the same identical SSID, but multiple MACs. This should be easy to reproduce if you can reconfigure several APs without causing other problems. :-) It would be a

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-12 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
I've noticed that mesh activity appears to be ALWAYS on. Even when the laptop is not doing anything, as in not conected to a school/local mesh and not sharing any activity. Sometimes even on Suspend mode I see the Wireless activity light flashing. I'm sure this somehow drains batteries faster

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-12 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: I've noticed that mesh activity appears to be ALWAYS on. Even when the laptop is not doing anything, as in not conected to a school/local mesh and not sharing any activity. Sometimes even on Suspend mode I see the Wireless activity light flashing. I'm sure this

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Laura Creighton wrote: I am at a conference. there are many OLPCs here. They are interfering with the wireless here. They apparantly do this even when not officially trying to be connected to the network, just being powered on is enough. Knowing what version of the software these

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-11 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
We can always lock the mesh interface to a single channel, and keep the normal APs on the two others. Also turning down the Tx power will reduce interference with normal 802.11b/g. As an absolute fall-back, there is a snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the wireless interface (Airplane mode