Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-28 Thread John Ferlito
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:26:45AM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > > I had a similar problem. I'm on a WEP network which worked fine on 8.2.0, > > but we simply can't connect on 8.2.1. The AP is a Billion brand. I can see > > the network, and am prompted for the password, but no joy! > > > > I've

Re: Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-28 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Hal Murray wrote: > For me, the new wireless is a step backwards. My setup used to fail > occasionally. Now it connects occasionally. genesee wrote: > wifi has been broken in staging-9 and 11 Pia Waugh added: > I had a similar problem. I'm on a WEP network which worked fine on 8.2.0, > but we s

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-28 Thread Bryan Berry
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 02:35 +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > its(adding new intruments) already in progress :) > Awesome! Zamechatelno! -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org h

OLPC upgrades

2009-01-28 Thread Mitch Bradley
Guess what? The people at OLPC, who aren't stupid, already considered every point in the message cited below, a long time ago. So why aren't we doing them? ...* *On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > > where entire servers would melt down because of the sheer number of > > g

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-28 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:05:30AM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:17 -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting this > > Friday, 3PM EST in #sugar-meeting on FreeNode. > > > > > > http://sugarl

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-28 Thread Bryan Berry
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:17 -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting this > Friday, 3PM EST in #sugar-meeting on FreeNode. > > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Meetings > > Wade, great idea! I would love to atten

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 35, Issue 84

2009-01-28 Thread Carlos Nazareno
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: >> Support? real men don't need no steeenkin manuals or directions! just >> ship em in a plain cardboard box with a power adaptor and all will be >> good to go! > > This unfortunately, is the point of view of a technical elitist (no > I'm n

Re: AMD to stop working on Geodes

2009-01-28 Thread Jerome Gotangco
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > say those four magic words, sell the XO via geek online stores, and > 1CC will be so slashdotted to high heck with orders that the waiting > list will take years to fill out. At similar price points, the XO-1 > puts the Nintendo DS, Tapwave

Re: AMD to stop working on Geodes

2009-01-28 Thread Jerome Gotangco
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > Support? real men don't need no steeenkin manuals or directions! just > ship em in a plain cardboard box with a power adaptor and all will be > good to go! This unfortunately, is the point of view of a technical elitist (no I'm not pointin

New staging build 23

2009-01-28 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/staging/build23 Changes in build 23 from build: 21 Size delta: 0.00M -bootanim 1.3-1 +bootanim 1.3-2 --- Changes for bootanim 1.3-2 from 1.3-1 --- + Rebuild, previous version had bad pyfb.so -- This mail was automatically generated See http:/

Re: AMD to stop working on Geodes

2009-01-28 Thread Tiago Marques
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > > People say they buy computers to work, but by and large they really > > buy them to play. And geodes > > wont run modern games so they aren't selling. > > Before the term DDOS came into use, there was only the Slashdot effect > where ent

Re: restore script

2009-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/1/29 Rodolfo D. Arce S. : > While testing the XS-XO backup interaction, i realized that there's no > restore script. it's been discussed a few times - but the list archives don't show anything for the obvious search terms. So here's some quick notes - - this is incomplete, because it depend

Re: [Activities] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-28 Thread Samuel Klein
Note: there will also be a global volunteering meeting at the same time in #olpc from 3-5, and we will drop in and join for some of the activity discussion. SJ On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hi everyone, > Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting

Re: [IAEP] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-28 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
Will this be a continuing weekly meeting? --g -- Got an XO that you're not using? Loan it to a needy developer! [[ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Exchange_Registry ]] On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Wade Brainerd wrote: Hi everyone, Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting this

ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-28 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi everyone, Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting this Friday, 3PM EST in #sugar-meeting on FreeNode. http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Meetings All are encouraged to attend. I will be especially happy to see the following kinds of people well represented: - Curre

Re: Turning off the mesh to save battery power

2009-01-28 Thread Tiago Marques
Hmmm "ifconfig msh0 down" I already did, it still blinks and iwconfig msh0 shows signal level very active, don't know if because wlan0 is up. iwconfig msh0 down isn't exactly something supported. Best regards, Tiago Marques On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:17 PM,

Re: AMD to stop working on Geodes

2009-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Bobby Powers wrote: > I believe there are technical or supply chain reasons that make it > more difficult than just swapping out the NAND chips. Not to be rude, > but you're not the first one who has thought of this :) Lot of people assume mfg is easy. It is inc

Re: AMD to stop working on Geodes

2009-01-28 Thread Bobby Powers
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: >> People say they buy computers to work, but by and large they really >> buy them to play. And geodes >> wont run modern games so they aren't selling. > > Before the term DDOS came into use, there was only the Slashdot effect > where entire

Re: AMD to stop working on Geodes

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Also, here's something Jerome Gotangco over at OLPC Ph has noticed > after sticking in Teapot's Xubuntu XO Intrepid Ibex liveSD: Battery > life seems to have gone down a lot. We have power management software specific to the XO, and the Ubuntu build doesn't use it. - Chris. -- Ch

Re: AMD to stop working on Geodes

2009-01-28 Thread david
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > Also, here's something Jerome Gotangco over at OLPC Ph has noticed > after sticking in Teapot's Xubuntu XO Intrepid Ibex liveSD: Battery > life seems to have gone down a lot. one reason for this is that the power management for the XO is still tied u

Re: AMD to stop working on Geodes

2009-01-28 Thread Carlos Nazareno
> People say they buy computers to work, but by and large they really > buy them to play. And geodes > wont run modern games so they aren't selling. Before the term DDOS came into use, there was only the Slashdot effect where entire servers would melt down because of the sheer number of geeks a l

restore script

2009-01-28 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
Hello: We're working on the deployment of 4000 XOs in Paraguay.. While testing the XS-XO backup interaction, i realized that there's no restore script.. If I reinstall the XO, how do I restore the journal.. from the XO??.. meaning that it shouldn't have administrative access to the server or any

Re: [Server-devel] IP addressing of access points

2009-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > 1. Modify the XS dhcpd config to not use the entire address range for > DHCP. Then we statically assign IP addresses to the APs in the > non-DHCP range. Yeah, I also like this one. I think Bryan and Tony were asking me the same question coupl

Re: [Server-devel] updates

2009-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Next, find a regular PC that is capable of reading SD cards. We're using Oh, good point. I thought that the XO SD reader was handled by the same kernel module as conventional SD readers. > I've got some ideas I want to try: "yum --installroot

Re: [Server-devel] my installation notes

2009-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/1/29 Rodolfo D. Arce S. : > The squid proxy server didn't start.. I had to manually create the directory > /library/cache.. "chown" it and "chmod" it for the squid user.. and > re-create the cache That is weird, and symptom of some other problem. - How did you enable Squid? You _must_ use t

Re: Turning off the mesh to save battery power

2009-01-28 Thread Richard A. Smith
Tiago Marques wrote: > Plus, the wireless symbol still blinks quite a lot with the lid close, > seems that mesh is still up and running? > echo 0 > /sys/power/wlan_enabled -- Richard Smith One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lap

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas snapshot

2009-01-28 Thread Simon Schampijer
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > You can download the iso here: > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas-200901271941.iso I have an issue to boot the stick on my desktop machine (ASUS A7V8X-X). It works fine on my T61 though. SYSLINUX 3.51 2007-06-10 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2007 H.

Re: Turning off the mesh to save battery power

2009-01-28 Thread Tiago Marques
Plus, the wireless symbol still blinks quite a lot with the lid close, seems that mesh is still up and running? Tiago Marques On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > I tried to disable mesh networking, like said there, it still has msh0 > created and signal value

Re: Turning off the mesh to save battery power

2009-01-28 Thread Tiago Marques
I tried to disable mesh networking, like said there, it still has msh0 created and signal values registered with iwconfig. I stopped NetworkManager just. Is it really off, or do I need to destroy msh0, if possible? Also, on the subject of battery life, I noticed that even when off, the speakers se

Re: [Server-devel] updates

2009-01-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:24 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > > No, the issue is that anaconda, for F9, doesn't have the kernel modules > > in the initrd, F10 does. Both fail to add the CF card to the > > partitioning screen, thus making the

Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.1, MOSTLY fixed

2009-01-28 Thread James Simmons
Jigish, I did a new installation of openSUSE 11.1 on my PC. I deleted all the existing partitions and started over, so absolutely nothing remains from the previous upgrade. I ran your commands and it gave the same complaint about sugar-activities, that it couldn't install etoys. I took opt

Re: Moving joyride to rawhide

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Peter, > Hi All, With the plans of releasing what is/was going to be 9.1.0 > as based on Fedora 11 (rather than the original plans of Fedora 10) > what is the plans on moving the joyride daily builds to pull in > rawhide rather than Fedora 10? As Daniel said, I think a better plan

[Server-devel] IP addressing of access points

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We are considering our options for having fixed addresses for access points on the network hosted by the XS. We would like to write some scripts to monitor the access points (e.g. ping them to see if they are alive) and so on. We will have several access points per XS in our deployment. We ha

[Server-devel] my installation notes

2009-01-28 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
Hello: While installing the XS 0.5.1 server, i found an of issue. After running ./network_config and ./domain_config: The squid proxy server didn't start.. I had to manually create the directory /library/cache.. "chown" it and "chmod" it for the squid user.. and re-create the cache r...@localho

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas snapshot

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/27 Gary C Martin : > Any tips as to what to do with these 2 on an XO? The only thing I've > done with .img and .crc before is copy-nand from firmware – is it > possible to run them from a usb stick without wiping nand or effecting > the existing nand install (so we can encourage safe(er) tes

Re: Moving joyride to rawhide

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/28 Peter Robinson : > With the plans of releasing what is/was going to be 9.1.0 as based on > Fedora 11 (rather than the original plans of Fedora 10) what is the > plans on moving the joyride daily builds to pull in rawhide rather > than Fedora 10? Is the plan for the 9.1.0 release (is it st

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

2009-01-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:28, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> You got distracted with shiny stuff! > > Rickrolled indeed :-) > >>> Is it possible for you to add a single file that says the "journal >>> storage" version at the root of it? Somethin

Moving joyride to rawhide

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, With the plans of releasing what is/was going to be 9.1.0 as based on Fedora 11 (rather than the original plans of Fedora 10) what is the plans on moving the joyride daily builds to pull in rawhide rather than Fedora 10? Is the plan for the 9.1.0 release (is it still going to be called tha