Testing 200 XO's in two weeks time for Nepal's pilot

2008-03-02 Thread Bryan Berry
Hey guys, Nepal should receive its shipment of 200 XO's in roughly 14 days from today. Here is the Rough Test Plan I have in mind 1. Boot into firmware and run test-all 2. Load customized image based on 656 build 3. Test localization on each XO (read Nepali, type in Nepali) 4. Test that basic a

[ANNOUNCE] Compressed RAM swap device (compcache) 0.2 released

2008-03-02 Thread Nitin Gupta
Hi All, I am pleased to announce compcache 0.2 - Compressed RAM based swap device for Linux. - Project Home: http://code.google.com/p/compcache/ - compcache-0.2: http://compcache.googlecode.com/files/compcache-0.2.tar.bz2 * Introduction compcache is virtual RAM based block device which acts as

Re: WDS problems observed in today's testing

2008-03-02 Thread Kim Hawtin
Javier Cardona wrote: > What I recall is 50% duty cycle and a channel grade of 22/100. The > channel grade takes into account not only the duty cycle but also the > noise floor. > I did not re-check those numbers after turning the AP off, but there > was a drastic improvement of the channel energy

Re: [OLPC Networking] Issues with the wireless mesh devices

2008-03-02 Thread Kim Hawtin
Forwarding due to the quietness over on [EMAIL PROTECTED] =) Kim Hawtin wrote: > Is this the correct forum to post questions around the wireless mesh devices? > > I took an XO to a community wireless[1] monthly meeting this week. > We had a number of problems with other wireless devices, we belie

Emulating the School Server hardware (first things first)

2008-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Chris, Hi Daf, Great news. I am located in Peru, tomorrow (today!) On Monday, we (a group of volunteers in Peru) will mount a small lab for helping the global OLPC efforts. I have check the info about the School Server, I understand that the info on the wiki can be a little old or not up

Multiple Questions from a SysAdmin

2008-03-02 Thread Bryan Berry
Hey guys, I have multiple questions that maybe quite noobish. I have had them for a while and been looking for answers in the wiki, w/out success. 1. How can I cryptographically sign my own custom NAND image? We will need to do custom images for our pilot. For example, we need to include the Nep

Re: Serious problems with "rescan networks on wakeup" feature.

2008-03-02 Thread Thomas Tuttle
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:37:22 -0500, "John Watlington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Thomas Tuttle wrote: > > The problem we have is the following: > > A student is using the laptop away from school/infrastructure, and is in > simple mesh mode. In this mode, all serv

Re: Serious problems with "rescan networks on wakeup" feature.

2008-03-02 Thread Ixo X oxI
One thought, to add to the mix... How about designing the best solution for the 'deployment / school' situation, then offering a method for users to optionally 'tweak' the setting for their preference / situation. Like a sugar-control-panel option to 'show mesh enable/disable scan option'... the

Re: Serious problems with "rescan networks on wakeup" feature.

2008-03-02 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Thomas Tuttle wrote: > Hi. > > I just upgraded to joyride-1738, and the new feature that rescans for > networks when the laptop wakes up is causing a lot of trouble for > me. I > often leave long-running connections such as IMAP or IRC open. Before > the change, th

Re: Today's mesh testing.

2008-03-02 Thread Walter Bender
Really is good news. Something we can work from. -walter On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:13 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the info ! This is good news, as it means that schools > up to a hundred students should work right now, given a school server > and three activ

Re: questions about using Wireshark to monitor the Mesh

2008-03-02 Thread Bryan Berry
Thanks john, I will try out the commands you sent. where can I download the newest build of the XS? I can't find it at xs-dev.laptop.org or dev.laptop.org We're hoping to get a working version of the XS by the end of this week. Our pilot starts soon (April 13) and we want to get the XS working so

Re: Today's mesh testing.

2008-03-02 Thread John Watlington
Thanks for the info ! This is good news, as it means that schools up to a hundred students should work right now, given a school server and three active antennas... wad On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > Daf and I got the school server jabberd/shared roster working today.

Today's mesh testing.

2008-03-02 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Daf and I got the school server jabberd/shared roster working today. We connected/registered 32 laptops to it with mesh TTL set to 1 for broadcast, and they were all able to see and join a shared chat session with each other. The workload on the spectrum analyzer increased from 18% (no-one co

Serious problems with "rescan networks on wakeup" feature.

2008-03-02 Thread Thomas Tuttle
Hi. I just upgraded to joyride-1738, and the new feature that rescans for networks when the laptop wakes up is causing a lot of trouble for me. I often leave long-running connections such as IMAP or IRC open. Before the change, the laptop would wake up, the card would reassociate, and there was

Re: questions about using Wireshark to monitor the Mesh

2008-03-02 Thread John Watlington
Those RPMs are already patched. What the patches allow are: support for mesh link layer messages (RREQ,PREQ, RREPLY, etc.) and decoding our new non-standard mesh multicast packets. That version doesn't dig into the telepathy packets. I have a patch from collabora that should do that, but have

questions about using Wireshark to monitor the Mesh

2008-03-02 Thread Bryan Berry
I have installed Wad's patched version Wireshark on my School Server and captured a whole ton of packets on msh0. I have assumed that the wireshark-0.99.7.mesh.i386.rpm and wireshark-gnome-0.99.7.mesh.i386.rpm are already patched and I don't have to apply the .patch file. Please correct me if I am

Re: Bonjour Problem

2008-03-02 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Daniel, > I tried to setup an Bonjour Chat with X0 Build 695 running in a VM > on my Mac and my Bonjour account on my mac. The clients see each > other but are not able to establish a communication via Chat. Do you > have any clue why we see each other but are not abel to talk? Yea, now

Re: storing Activity parameters

2008-03-02 Thread Gary C Martin
I'm having some indecision about my own (very simple) activity state saving. Just had a though that may add another possibility to this thread. What if both journal and file-system were used to store the activity state, with the journal settings overriding the file-system settings. This way

FWD: Bonjour Problem

2008-03-02 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
--- Begin Message --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Guys, I tried to setup an Bonjour Chat with X0 Build 695 running in a VM on my Mac and my Bonjour account on my mac. The clients see each other but are not able to establish a communication via Chat. Do you have any