Re: USB Ethernet test

2011-01-11 Thread Martin Abente
After a quick test, with the olpc 802 build and all the newer ones (including dextrose), I saw that only on the 802 build, Network Manager starts autoip after the dhcpclient has given up. Researching on the web, I found this [1]. Basically autoip was causing confusion when making the users to

Re: USB Ethernet test

2011-01-11 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 02:40:23PM -0300, Martin Abente wrote: Researching on the web, I found this [1]. Basically autoip was causing confusion when making the users to believe that the ethernet connection was _always_ successful. Caused by conflating two concepts; network interface

Re: USB Ethernet test

2011-01-11 Thread Gary Martin
On 11 Jan 2011, at 22:57, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 02:40:23PM -0300, Martin Abente wrote: Researching on the web, I found this [1]. Basically autoip was causing confusion when making the users to believe that the ethernet connection was _always_

Re: USB Ethernet test

2011-01-11 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:46:24PM +, Gary Martin wrote: Ooh, interesting. I take it the below 'indicate connected to provider and, I seem to be able to talk to some Internet servers' is the UI direction you've seen provided for this before? On those routers and last mile devices, yes.

Re: USB Ethernet test

2010-12-26 Thread Kevin Gordon
Sorry for the delay. Here's my latest update. Did this using only two XO 1.0's, running Build 360. This could all be behaviour by design, and I'm not reporting any bugs here, just listing what I've done in testing. Each command entered on one XO, then the other in turn. Fresh copy-nand

Re: USB Ethernet test

2010-12-26 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Kevin, here is how my XOs communicate: 1) I haven't seen any reason to ever go to Gnome -- instead I've written several scripts which I run from Terminal, and which set up communication between XOs (when it hasn't been setup automatically). 2) Much of my inter-XO communication has been using

Re: USB Ethernet test

2010-12-19 Thread Kevin Gordon
Update on the request for testing: As per below, adaptors and cable have already been verified. As base desired behaviour, verified XO1 running Build 802 auto-assigns itself an IPv4 169 address and is able to connect to a Windows machine. Alas, on the testing phase: Used two newly refreshed XO

Re: USB Ethernet test

2010-12-19 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 02:22:01PM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: All above testing done in root in the terminal from Sugar activity. Sorry, I dont know how to the step request of : check Sugar frame for an IP address assignment. I also dont know how to check collaboration through sharing, Sugar

Re: USB Ethernet test

2010-12-19 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
James wrote: The frame will have an icon for the USB ethernet adapter. In my experience this is true *IF* the ethernet adapter has been assigned an IP address by an external DHCP server. In those cases where I manually assigned a (non-169.x.x.x) IPv4 address to the adapter, the Frame did NOT

Re: USB Ethernet test

2010-12-19 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:18:43PM -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: James wrote: The frame will have an icon for the USB ethernet adapter. In my experience this is true *IF* the ethernet adapter has been assigned an IP address by an external DHCP server. In those cases where I manually

Re: USB Ethernet test

2010-12-19 Thread Kevin Gordon
Cc: KG Gmail Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: USB Ethernet test Sent: Dec 19, 2010 20:42 On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:18:43PM -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: James wrote: The frame will have an icon for the USB ethernet adapter. In my experience this is true *IF* the ethernet adapter has

Re: USB Ethernet test

2010-12-19 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:27:58AM +, Kevin Gordon wrote: Have to say I'm seeing the same as Mikus, the auto-assigned icons do not appear in the frame. The wireless ones, the 3G modems do appear, and the USB when hooked to a DHCP providing ethernet router do. But on any of the XO 1s and

USB Ethernet test

2010-12-18 Thread Kevin Gordon
Folks: Just writing to let you know that I'm still working on the test case : http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10541#comment:http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10541#comment:2 I've set up two Windows machines each with a USB/Ethernet connector and a crossover cable and disabled all networking interfaces