Building an OLPC kernel

2009-03-17 Thread Rekik Hanen
Hi, I found this link http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel_Building and I tried to follow it. But when I run tar zcvf kern.tar.gz arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map /lib/modules/$VERS, I got this error tar: error exit delayed from previous errors. Note that I use ubuntu 8.10 machine. Can anyone help

Re: Building an OLPC kernel

2009-03-17 Thread Scott Douglass
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 11:54 +, Rekik Hanen wrote: Hi, I found this link http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel_Building and I tried to follow it. But when I run tar zcvf kern.tar.gz arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map /lib/modules/$VERS, I got this error tar: error exit delayed from previous

Re: [IAEP] DC Photo Jam 2 - New batch of photos of SoaS running onnetbooks

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:42:36AM -0400, John Watlington wrote: On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 04:48, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: I would expect it to be faster on other processors. I don't think the processor is the biggest factor. In

Re: [IAEP] DC Photo Jam 2 - New batch of photos of SoaS running onnetbooks

2009-03-17 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.comwrote: I seem to recall this is one of those conversations that comes up periodically, and that once someone / people created a wiki page with thoughts on a partitioning layout design that could be of broad use. Does

Re: Building an OLPC kernel

2009-03-17 Thread Bastien
Guys, please strip olpc-france@ mailing list from english conversations, this is confusing. Thanks! Scott Douglass sc...@swdouglass.com writes: On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 11:54 +, Rekik Hanen wrote: Hi, I found this link http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel_Building and I tried to follow it. But

[Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We'd like to add a custom DNS entry on the XS to override updates.laptop.org to point it at another address (where we'll serve antitheft/lease data for paraguay). I have got it working as follows: I modified /etc/named-xs.conf and I added this section inside the internal view: zone

Linux performance without swap (was: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] DC Photo Jam 2 - New batch of photos of SoaS running onnetbooks)

2009-03-17 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:58:29PM +, Martin Dengler wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:42:36AM -0400, John Watlington wrote: I doubt the speedup is due to the presence of swap. Didn't get the original mail (yet), so replying to this one instead. I don't know if the issue is already fixed

Re: [Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-17 Thread Dave Bauer
So what does gadget do? Is there a new client side UI for electing groups? Who chooses, the kids or the teachers? etc. Gadget: * Shows people you have explicitly friended (which is trivial, that's just a conventional non-shared roster) * Shows you some random people on the server so you

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 09:40 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, We'd like to add a custom DNS entry on the XS to override updates.laptop.org to point it at another address (where we'll serve antitheft/lease data for paraguay). I have got it working as follows: I modified /etc/named-xs.conf

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Please apply here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program If you are approved, delivery generally occurs within about a week. Full paragraph responses are not required since you are not applying for laptops -- one clear

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40) ? it's ok to request them for

Re: [IAEP] DC Photo Jam 2 - New batch of photos of SoaS running onnetbooks

2009-03-17 Thread Tiago Marques
2009/3/17 Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:42:36AM -0400, John Watlington wrote: On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 04:48, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: I would expect it to be faster on other processors.

Re: [support-gang] you volunteers are nuts :)

2009-03-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: I didn't even call a meeting, and 10+ ppl still showed up 4PM Sunday-- your Loyalty to the cause is insane^h^h^h^h^h^hWONDERFUL :)) Topics discussed -- also posted to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_meetings :    * Sameer's

Re: 2PM EDT Friday: BRIEF Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting)

2009-03-17 Thread Samuel Klein
On a related note, OLPC are looking for mentors and project ideas for Summer of Code this year, so please add yourself and your ideas -- or those of people you are mentoring, where a CP project has an obvious good fit. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code for details and encourage mentors

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: dnsmasq can certainly help. With dnsmasq you just have to add an entry in /etc/hosts on the server, and then dnsmasq automatically picks it up. Well, then we'd have to have a conf.d for /etc/hosts... this part of the problem

Re: [Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Preliminary tests show it works fine. We have been testing SoaS against XS 0.5.2 and it performs the same as jabber.sugarlabs.org (which I believe has gadget installed). can you confirm that - the laptops show *gabble*

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/17 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: dnsmasq can certainly help. With dnsmasq you just have to add an entry in /etc/hosts on the server, and then dnsmasq automatically picks it up. Well, then we'd have to

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Martin 2 - dnsmasq 1 dsd 10 - dnsmasq 10 - martin 2 the sample conffile also shows: # Include a another lot of configuration options. #conf-file=/etc/dnsmasq.more.conf #conf-dir=/etc/dnsmasq.d This is all good news. We are

Re: [Olpc-france] Building an OLPC kernel

2009-03-17 Thread Aime Vareille
Hi, I am also trying to compile the last stable kernel 2.6.28.7/8 ; I tried first from ubuntu 8.10 with 2.6.25 config of debxo, then with the same oldconfig but from debxo on large SDcard (8GB) on XO and last making oldconfig on the 2.6.25 original fedora config of the XO and using the recent

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 04:04:06PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/3/17 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: It's in my plans to have a means to do what you're doing. I was wondering about  - a conf.d approach  - a pre-processor for the .in files that handles ifdef-style blocks  -

Re: improving XO connectivity rates

2009-03-17 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
... the workaround definitely seems to be working fine. If you'd like to try it, you simply have to replace the shell script at /etc/NetworkManager/callouts/nm-dhcp-client.action with this binary: http://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/8104/nm-dhcp-action (named as nm-dhcp-client.action).

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread John Watlington
There are no health concerns with the AAs. Those modules have passed SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) tests to both FCC and EU standards. Martin was referring to the RF spectrum usage, which is higher for a given payload using the mesh than when using a conventional AP. wad On Mar 17,

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:56 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Martin was referring to the RF spectrum usage, which is higher for a given payload using the mesh than when using a conventional AP. Which in practice means: given a few clients, the bandwidth sucks horribly and everything

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Hal Murray
Martin was referring to the RF spectrum usage, which is higher for a given payload using the mesh than when using a conventional AP. Why? Why is XO to XO traffic any different from XO to AP? Is there a good web page that explains this area? -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my

Re: improving XO connectivity rates

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/17 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: I'm not sure which build version that workaround is supposed to apply to.  Anyway, I tried it with candidate-801 on my XO. I don't have wireless at home.  Went to an establishment which had a wireless AP (key-free) on channel 6.  Despite many times

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: Martin was referring to the RF spectrum usage, which is higher for a given payload using the mesh than when using a conventional AP. Why?  Why is XO to XO traffic any different from XO to AP? search the archives --

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread John Watlington
Because, unlike traffic to/from an AP, XO/XO traffic uses broadcast to perform route discovery before sending the payload. This broadcast is repeated by all XOs that hear it... Routes are discarded after 5 - 10 seconds, so route discovery happens frequently. I didn't design it, I'm just

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:21 PM, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: All solved - I did not read all that Pia has written on the XS installing server wiki page - it's all there. I missed the bit

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/17 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: But the iptables idea is a good one, thanks! ...but unfortunately the redirect is done by IP, which results in all services/sites that might be running on the same system as activation.laptop.org being unaccessible, and also breaks as soon as the upstream

Re: [Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/3/18 Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com: Martin, will this peacefully coexist with the Moodle/ejabberd work you are doing? I am busy enough that I haven't had time to study that aspect. And won't for the next couple months I think :-/ there is more urgent work at hand. cheers., m --

Re: [Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-17 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/3/18 Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com: Martin, will this peacefully coexist with the Moodle/ejabberd work you are doing? I am busy enough that I haven't had time to study that aspect. And won't for the

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: The changes to .in will be overwritten when xs-configs gets updated. But the iptables idea is a good one, thanks! It's in my plans to have a means to do what you're doing. I was wondering about - a conf.d approach - a

Re: [Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I guess I will try it out and let you know what I learn. Fantastic! One interesting data point would be whether the new software stack (sugar with the new telepathy-gadget) is backwards compat with an XS that has no

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/17 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: It's in my plans to have a means to do what you're doing. I was wondering about  - a conf.d approach  - a pre-processor for the .in files that handles ifdef-style blocks  - whether dnsmasq or djbdns can help us here I sure hope BIND

Re: [Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-17 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I guess I will try it out and let you know what I learn. Fantastic! One interesting data point would be whether the new software

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 12:00 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/3/17 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: But the iptables idea is a good one, thanks! ...but unfortunately the redirect is done by IP, which results in all services/sites that might be running on the same system as activation.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 16:04 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/3/17 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: It's in my plans to have a means to do what you're doing. I was wondering about - a conf.d approach - a pre-processor for the .in files that handles ifdef-style blocks -

Re: [Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/17 Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca: The dns hijack would suffer from an ip change also, would it not? No. If the real antitheft.laptop.org changes IP, our hijack still works. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 06:30:17PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/3/15 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Client code for Gadget seems to be integrated in the Telepathy new Sugar present on the SoaS images. The server side -- the proper gadget code -- isn't on any XS, and I haven't

[Server-devel] Anaconda does not clear /var/lock/subsys - service $svc condrestart start services

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
In the course of diagnosing a strange problem that seems to happen only on some anaconda-driven upgrades, I found that -- unlike the normal boot process -- there is nothing in anaconda that clears /var/lock/subsys. (Note - this applies to the Fedora 9 based OLPC XS. Perhaps this is known and

[Server-devel] Fwd: Anaconda does not clear /var/lock/subsys - service $svc condrestart start services

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
[ resend - fixed list address ] In the course of diagnosing a strange problem that seems to happen only on some anaconda-driven upgrades, I found that -- unlike the normal boot process -- there is nothing in anaconda that clears /var/lock/subsys. (Note - this applies to the Fedora 9 based OLPC

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd's mnesia breaking - (Re: Almost-released: XS-0.5.2)

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:  - During init, /var/lock/subsys is cleared, so even after a hard poweroff the init scripts should not be confused about the state of things. I am right now trying to see if anaconda does the same. This is the

[Server-devel] Released: XS-0.5.2 -

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
After much delay, XS-0.5.2 is now stamped, officially, as good. It's the same iso as the RC we've been discussing for the last 2 weeks. It fixes 3 bugs, the most notable one being the ejabberd @online@ roster issue. Find it at: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/ Check it: $ sha1sum