Re: [sugar] eBook Reader user interface

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 12:38 -0700, Don Hopkins wrote: print Hello world! I have made a version of the Read activity that supports navigation and control with the gamepad, and has a few new features and improvements. The main problem is getting the two gamepads to send unique keycodes that

Re: Power Management

2007-06-08 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:14 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 14:51 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: OLPC now uses the olpc-hardware-manager python service to do power management tasks. This is not really suitable for long term use, and we can't easily do clever things

Re: How to obtain serial number in linux

2007-06-21 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 13:48 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 00:50 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: David Woodhouse wrote: I remember a lot of noise and pointless paranoia, but no actual _mess_. A lot of noise and pointless paranoia over something with no practical

[PATCH] xf86-amd-devel: fix lx Xv downscaling

2007-06-25 Thread Dan Williams
Try #2. diff --git a/src/amd_lx_video.c b/src/amd_lx_video.c index e1e51aa..a4cd91b 100644 --- a/src/amd_lx_video.c +++ b/src/amd_lx_video.c @@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ LXDisplayVideo(ScrnInfoPtr pScrni, int id, short width, short height, unsigned long yExtra, uvExtra = 0; DF_VIDEO_POSITION

Re: [PATCH] xf86-amd-devel: fix lx Xv downscaling

2007-06-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 17:21 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Dan Williams wrote: Try #2. Does ti fix http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1601 perhaps? _maybe_, but this was tested on Xorg 1.1.99, so there may be more stuff with 1.3 that's broken. Dan

Re: mesh network vs broadcast/multicast question

2007-06-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 15:22 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: Hi dan, I have some questions on the mesh network for the updates work. What is the broadcast domain for a laptop on the mesh? (I.E. how far are broadcast messages sent)? Is it just the set of nodes reachable from your machine, or

Re: Ivan's XO Field Upgrade Proposal

2007-06-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:16 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On 6/26/07, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Downside of this is, as Alex pointed out, it'll load the mesh a _lot_ more than XO-XO updates. Not necessarily. Rsync is pretty efficient: we're still basically distributing just

Re: mesh network vs broadcast/multicast question

2007-06-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 17:10 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: Hi - On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 04:49:40PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: [...] Does this mean that one needs a school server/bridge in order to talk to two differently-channeled friends ? Yes. You must spread the XOs between

Re: mesh network vs broadcast/multicast question

2007-06-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 15:18 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 11:34 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: The key point to remember in order to derive answers to these questions is that our mesh network operates at layer-2 For all practical purposes, there aren't any

Re: System update spec proposal

2007-06-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 17:42 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 15:03 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: My understanding here is that Alex's system is currently point-to-point, but that we don't yet have any way to distribute it on the mesh? That is, that we are looking

Re: object store apis

2007-06-28 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 13:59 -0400, SJ Klein wrote: Hello all, Thibaut is the author of meshboard.xo [1], a mesh community-board app that currently (as a hack) uses its own xml-rpc server in each instance to send messages to others running the activity. Ryan Trinkle is interested in

Re: Upgrades and image manifests

2007-06-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 14:39 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: Hi, My name is Alexander Larsson, and I just started working on the field upgrade system of the olpc laptops. I have some ideas I'd like to explain and get feedback on. The olpc uses a full-image system, as opposed to the

Re: Upgrades and image manifests

2007-06-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 14:21 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 08:22 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: Two questions here: 1) what does the scheme do in the case where the file it's about to replace on the local machine isn't the same as what the manifest on the local

Re: Upgrades and image manifests

2007-06-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 14:39 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: Hi, My name is Alexander Larsson, and I just started working on the field upgrade system of the olpc laptops. I have some ideas I'd like to explain and get feedback on. The olpc uses a full-image system, as opposed to the

Re: Upgrades and image manifests

2007-06-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 14:39 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: Hi, My name is Alexander Larsson, and I just started working on the field upgrade system of the olpc laptops. I have some ideas I'd like to explain and get feedback on. One more thing :) I'm sure you know, but something people

Re: Build 472 - testing

2007-06-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 21:37 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 11:23 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote: Test Groups, Build 472 is available, but the biggest problem is that it doesn't get on the mesh or infrastructure AP. Some activities are working and there is more to see in

Re: Upgrades and image manifests

2007-07-02 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:26 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Please read Ivan's update proposal. He addresses many of the peripheral issues that have arisen, re user notification, etc. At this point, as far as I'm concerned, the only open question is how we get a filesystem image onto the

Re: .xo bundles (was Re: #1803 HIGH Trial-2: Add Chat activity to builds)

2007-07-05 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 23:47 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Comment (by J5): Replying to [comment:4 bert]: Replying to [comment:3 J5]: This was generated incorrectly. First the version should be -9 second the activity should be Chat-9.xo. It looks like it was simply zipped

Re: can't get wireless working on B2 updated to 406

2007-07-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:01 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, raidautorun: failed to open /dev/md0: No such device or address That's normal. from a root shell ifconfig only lists the lo interface. That's bad. Please open a bug on http://dev.laptop.org/query and attach the file

Re: [PATCH] cafe_ccic: add support for VIDIOC_ENUM_FRAMESIZES and VIDIOC_ENUM_FRAMEINTERVALS

2007-07-07 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 16:30 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newer gstreamer v4l2 plugins require these ioctls to determine supported frame sizes and rates. Unfortunately, the kernel v4l2 bits don't have members in 'struct video_device' for these ioctls

Re: pivot_root on boot

2007-07-07 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 00:12 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Quick recap of early boot: a) open firmware checks the status of the foo key, and signature-checks and boots either the primary or the backup kernel, passing fs=primary or fs=backup on the kernel command-line. b) an initramfs script

cafe_ccic slowness in VIDIOC_S_FMT

2007-07-07 Thread Dan Williams
Hi, The gstreamer is taking a long time to start the pipeline, so I put some debugging info into the v4l2 source. Here's what I got: 0:00:02.40365 v4l2src v4l2src_calls.c:874:gst_v4l2src_set_capture:v4l2src0 V4L2SRC: Setting capture format to 640x480, format YUYV 0:00:02.403785000 v4l2src

Re: updatinator benchmarking (Was: rsync benchmarking)

2007-07-11 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 23:47 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander, I should mention that doing better than rsync with a custom solution is not unexpected. rsync tries to be fairly general purpose, and special purpose delta tools can almost always do better, as they can take advantage of

Re: Dramatic image size reduction

2007-07-20 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 10:23 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Build 511 was 290MB, build 513 dropped to 218MB, but I couldn't find anything in the ChangeLog to justify this dramatic improvement. Anyone has a clue? The library was broken and was removed. I should have noted that in the

Re: text channel

2007-07-21 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 17:18 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Comment (by dcbw): You don't actually need Tubes here. Each activity has it's own text channel (even if it doesn't have tubes), which is what we were going to use to do the corkboard stuff. The text channel may possibly

Re: updatinator status, issues

2007-07-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:00 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: I've updated autoupdatinator (the peer-to-peer mDNS version of the updatinator downloader) to work with the new repository layout where manifests are stored as blobs. I've tested it by publishing an apache http server with a static

Re: [PATCH] Adding the olpc-register script to olpc-util

2007-07-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 11:43 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On 7/27/07, Nelson Elhage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a patch to olpc-util to add a script to register the XO with the schoolserver for purposes of backup for trial 2 (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/24). +sn =

Re: [PATCH] Adding the olpc-register script to olpc-util

2007-07-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:08 -0400, Nelson Elhage wrote: Here's a fixed version of the patch. Built as: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=84355 dan - Nelson On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:03:00AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 11:43 -0400, C. Scott Ananian

Re: Does sugar web browser support extensions?

2007-08-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:43 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: what was the reason not to support firefox addons again? Well, it's not really a decision, but more of a side-effect. The best and most flexible embedding technology to use is pyxpcom. We're embedding a Gecko engine into a different app,

Re: Question about Libertas and anycast_mask

2007-08-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 10:03 -0400, John Watlington wrote: Dan, The Reliance team in India is having trouble getting the anycast_mask flag set. A mesh interface is configured and up and running. They echo 1 / sys/class/net/msh0/anycast_mask, but subsequent cat

Re: Marvell

2007-09-11 Thread Dan Williams
. Most people prefer an interactive disassembler like IDA or ChARMeD. Dan Williams writes: Somebody needs to take ownership of the issue and run with it. There's no bandwidth right now to do that at OLPC. No problem. Please approve the hosting request. Also, I can only do so much

Re: More 16 vs 24 bpp profiling

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:19 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: On 09/11/2007 01:32 PM, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: The 16bpp codepath has to be broken somewhere if it takes twice the time to copy half the bits :-) It strikes me that we don't see any time spent in pixman_fill_mmx(), even

Re: Marvell

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:27 +0200, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 06:12 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: There was an alternative libertas driver which uses the device in 'dumb' mode with the kernel's mac80211 stack. Coupled with mesh support in mac80211 that might make a

Re: wireless networking

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:08 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hi all, Got the delivery of two B4 machines and joined the list today. I am trying to test the system, so would like to get some help. I am starting with networking; I have not yet updated to the latest OS image, though. I got

Re: wireless networking

2007-09-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 06:55 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 19:52 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Thanks, I am now seeing my wireless router on the machines and can ping other machines connected to it. Wired internet

Re: radio off guarantee?

2007-09-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:52 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: moin, On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:42:51 +1000 James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we need a solid way to turn off the RF before it's OK to use an XO on an airplane? Our target market usually won't have this problem.

Re: Power envelope (was Re: radio off guarantee?)

2007-09-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 12:12 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: John Watlington wrote: Suppose I'm someplace where I don't expect or want to do any mesh networking. How much would turning off the radio help battery life? Last I checked, the effect was very small. There will be

Re: #3593 NORM Trial-3: Mesh channel randomization breaks NM 'mesh-start' tweakable

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 06:18 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: I would recommend not making the patch; I think I found it confusing only because I didn't know that random impacted link-local. But do we still default to channel 1 if no school server is found? No, I'm not confident that we do. Dan

Re: #3593 NORM Trial-3: Mesh channel randomization breaks NM 'mesh-start' tweakable

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 07:50 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 06:18 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: I would recommend not making the patch; I think I found it confusing only because I didn't know that random impacted link-local. But do we still default to channel 1 if no school

Re: retrieving the activity bundle directory

2007-10-11 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:29 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hi everyone, does anyone know if is there a way to retrieve the activity bundle top directory name under python/sugar? You should be able to: from sugar.activity import activity my_bundle_path = activity.get_bundle_path() Dan

Re: ip4-address buddy property - still needed?

2007-10-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:15 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We still have one set of OLPC-specific patches to Salut (the link-local collaboration backend) that has been rejected upstream, which is the one that adds support for the deprecated

Re: [PATCH] Configurable beacon interval

2007-10-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:38 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:29:50 -0400 Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 15:42 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: From: Brajesh Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] See https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2750#comment:12

Re: [PATCH] Retry frame transmission when libertas driver is busy.

2007-11-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 16:17 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: Andres, On 11/2/07, Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, uh.. This patch is from Javier, but was originally written by Ashish? Did I get

Re: Unicode in filenames

2007-11-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 09:54 -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Joyride-277 doesn't validate, because it contains a file from the library with a filename in non-normalized unicode. The file is named 'Annobo?n_Bioko-thumb.jpg', where the ? should be a separated accent on the o, but it is actually

[RFC PATCH] libertas: turn radio off when down

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Williams
, the intent for which (unless I'm reading that code wrong) was just to check whether the interface was up or not, since that's what open/close do. Comments? Signed-off-by: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c index caf0b1c

Re: [RFC PATCH] libertas: turn radio off when down

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Williams
, 21 Nov 2007 16:26:57 +1100 From: James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brajesh Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] libertas: turn radio off when down On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:18

RE: [RFC PATCH] libertas: turn radio off when down

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Williams
mesh channel, because a long suspend most likely means you changed location and increases the likelihood that the networking situation around you changed as well. Thanks -Ashish -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Williams Sent

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 8

2007-12-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 19:05 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Yesterday I tried upgrading yoyride to Fedora 8, to see how much pain it would be. After enabling the fedora repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and tweaking it to make it fetch from version 8, I just did: init 3 yum -y

Re: Voice IM project proposal

2007-12-12 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 10:39 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, We do already have a video-chat activity under development - due to priorities it hasn't been updated in a while but collaboration on that would be welcome. In particular I think the problems with video-chat were:

Re: Unable to initialize camera (via mmap interface)

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:03 -0800, Peter Krenesky wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to initialize the camera device and running into some errors. I'm attempting to use the mmap interface initialized by VIDIOCGMBUF ioctl. the ioctl is returning -1 and errno is 22. Is VIDIOCGMBUF/mmap even

Re: WPA - testing

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 15:14 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/13/2007 02:54:11 PM: - Whatever changed between 1407 and 1416 seem to have really crashed WPA support, I mean, now we cannot set it to work via wpa_supplicant anymore.

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:18 -0600, Charles Durrett wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 11:21 AM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The largest issue is how wrong, ugly and painful is to use DHCP on a mesh network. Because of RADV, IPv6 doesn't have

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-09 Thread Dan Williams
to see why - it can be non-standard but definitely not difficult to implement. IIRC, Dan Williams was the person looking into it. It wasn't a Network Manager change, it was a change to Avahi, and would either have to be pushed upstream or maintained indefinitely by us. Plus, AutoIP

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 09:00 +, Simon McVittie wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 at 22:17:18 -0500, John Watlington wrote: We have a presence service which provides a way for P2P applications to find one another, even after the IP changes.

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 00:09 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Dan Williams wrote: In the server-based backend, an IP address change *will* cause a disconnect and reconnect. This is definitely unavoidable, since XMPP uses a long-lived TCP connection to the server

Re: MP3 and the OLPC

2008-01-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:03 -0800, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: I'm trying to understand the legal state of MP3 versus the OLPC platform. Looking at this wiki page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Restricted_Formats Seems to indicate that handling MP3 requires a license, and thus an MP3

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:29 -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote: David, There are a couple of issues i would like to address, mostly related to the new wireless driver. First, the netstat command: About 50% of the time it becomes very slow(practically freezes) and spews a getnameinfo error.

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 15:11 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2008 10:48:13 AM: There's a long explanation for that, but the short one is that the driver should no longer periodically run around in circles screaming, then have an arterial

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:22 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: I believe what you want is radio off, not mesh stop. radio off == iwconfig eth0 txpower off that's always been around from day #1. On Jan 16, 2008 8:01 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/16 Ricardo Carrano

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 14:01 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: 2008/1/16 Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED]: IMHO, there is no point in investing time in mesh stop/start now (or any time in the future unless there is a strong reason for that - which we lack now). The stated reason for wanting

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 17:06 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: Indeed we had this airplane mode discussion two weeks ago: Why don't we? --- This is the correct sledgehammer approach as mbletsas has consistently pointed out. For a more user-friendly solution, (short of a hardware rfkill

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 09:51 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: I suppose that OFW could reset the wireless to turn it off and then do some chipset configuration hack that would make that USB port disappear. I'm just guessing though; I haven't studied the 5536 manual with this possibility in mind.

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:18 -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: To completely silence the radio: #!/bin/bash rmmod usb8xxx mv /lib/firmaware/usb8883.bin /lib/firmaware/usb8883.bin.quiet For a more user-friendly solution, (short of a hardware rfkill switch) put a toggle somewhere in the

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 10:33 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/18/2008 10:08:09 AM: On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 08:36 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 19:16 -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote: It must be noted that the important issue

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 08:36 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 19:16 -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote: It must be noted that the important issue of this discussion is how to have the radio blocked from BEFORE the XO boots, so as not to be conflicting with the airline

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 01:38 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 10:08 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: Yes. The active antennas firmware would need to be slightly altered to start on firmware boot, but the normal XO firmware should certainly be radio-off-until-driver-enabled

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 04:31 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:47 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: What is the post-boot firmware flash functionality supposed to apply to, the host-less active antenna? (which is what I heretofore had understood). As Ben says, they're

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:05 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/19/2008 12:48:06 PM: Hmm, ok... So all the external USB 8388 dongles have a larger SPI flash to contain both the Boot2 code and the 100K thick firmware? yes, Does the Boot2

Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

2008-01-21 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 19:05 +, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: On 1/21/08, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that it's completely insane to try to diverge from the upstream kernel and userland here. Uh? You are supposed to costumize the kernel as you feel like it. Freedom

Re: free firmware for 88W8388

2008-01-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Citando Rózsás Gödény [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I started to modify qemu to emulate 88W8388. Now it can load the firmware ( usb8388.bin) into ram and starts the firmware, albeit it drops an error after some time. So it is very simple so

Re: Rebuilding the Kernel

2008-01-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 11:24 -0500, Tom Hoffman wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get a USB2VGA adapter working. Step 1 would appear to be compiling the SISUSBVGA module in the standard kernel tree and getting it onto my XO. So I've been trying http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rebuilding_OLPC_kernel

Re: free firmware for 88W8388

2008-01-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 14:40 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: Dan Williams writes: No, you can't. One team reverse engineers the hardware and creates a specifications document, the second team implements (from scratch or from unencumbered FOSS sources) the firmware The only unencumbered

Re: free firmware for 88W8388

2008-01-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:03 +0100, Rózsás Gödény wrote: Hi I hope you can make options to start with any of the 3 firmwares. Perhaps I wish to try writing a boot1 or boot2. Um, Boot1 is burned into ROM on the 8388 and you probably can't change that without a lot

Re: XOs B4 and USB-SVGA adapters

2008-01-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 18:38 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote: Hi all, I am trying to use a USB-SVGA adapter based on the SiS 35x chips with a XO Beta4. It seems like even with an external USB hub which is externally powered, the SVGA adapter does not received enough power, which I find

Re: Association test

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 14:58 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: I installed d-feet on an XO. But when I run './d-feet -l' I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/d-feet, line 47, in module app = DFeetApp.DFeetApp() File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dfeet/DFeetApp.py,

Re: [PATCH stable] libertas: Extend CMD_MESH_CONFIG to get and set persistent mesh default params.

2008-05-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 17:51 +0200, Stefanik Gábor wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 15:09 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:01 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: This patch is based on a patch from

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 20:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On an SMP host, are you sure we can't end up setting the multicast list simultaneously on the two logical devices? (A: No.) Try it like this... completely untested and

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 12:05 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 07:01 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: Is the firmware multicast address limit the same for every firmware from 5.0.x up to 9? Is it something that people with the firmware dev kit can change with a recompile

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:37 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 10:12:31 AM: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:18 -0400, John Watlington wrote: On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:08 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:03 -0400, John Watlington wrote: My bad. This is now Trac #7170 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7170 All of the information in this ticket comes from

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_boot2 echo firmware_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_fw So why are we doing this with the driver, and not the

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:34 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name /sys

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:26 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:37 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 10:12:31 AM: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:30 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:20:51 AM: A necessary rectification: Firmware updates from the driver are the only method that works currently. If we want to name one method a disaster, we would have to choose

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:49 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 01:20:11 PM: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:03 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:26:21 AM: It is not a matter

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:03 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:26:21 AM: It is not a matter of Python vs C. The userspace tool is extremely awkward to use (since it requires the driver modules to be unloaded which in turn makes

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_boot2 echo firmware_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_fw So by this point the driver has already sent

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:09 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 12:09:11 PM: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:30 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:20:51 AM: A necessary rectification

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:08 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:28 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: I'm happy to test this out and try to get the userspace tool working again if given: Last time I knew, the userspace tool _was_ working. Although we'd stripped out

Re: Setting up the mesh device

2008-06-24 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 19:42 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: Hi, I'm currently working on adding support for the olpc mesh device to NM 0.7. I feel sorry for you :) In some ways 0.7 has made it a lot better for you (concurrent device support) and in other ways it's made it a bit harder (more

Re: Setting up the mesh device

2008-06-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 18:09 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: Sjoerd Simons wrote: I'm setting the ESSID on the msh0 interface indeed. But i never get an association event on it.. While i even get an association event on eth0 when it's not up (but with msh0 being up obviously) :)

Re: Setting up the mesh device

2008-06-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 02:34 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 06:09:58PM -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: Sjoerd Simons wrote: I'm setting the ESSID on the msh0 interface indeed. But i never get an association event on it.. While i even get an association event on

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-07 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 16:23 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 16:19, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Following the let's make Sugar more deployable theme that Daniel started a while ago, I am looking at something that Reuben mentioned last week he

Re: NetworkManager from fedora-updates-testing broken on F11-XO1

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 20:17 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: We didn't collect the logs in the field, but in /var/log/messages we found an assertion failure from NM which was more or less like driver ! = NULL, just after logging something about the OLPC mesh device. Wireless wasn't working at

Re: NetworkManager from fedora-updates-testing broken on F11-XO1

2010-02-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 10:20 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 16:15 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: Not a known issue; but I'll try to reproduce on mine. Unless Daniel gets there first of course. I retrieved the log: I was able to reproduce the issue as well. The problem

Re: NetworkManager from fedora-updates-testing broken on F11-XO1

2010-02-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 22:44 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 11:08 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 10:20 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 16:15 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: Not a known issue; but I'll try to reproduce on mine

Re: NetworkManager from fedora-updates-testing broken on F11-XO1

2010-02-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 21:38 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:11 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Feb 25 17:01:30 xo-37-38-0f NetworkManager: *** START ** Feb 25 17:01:30 xo-37-38-0f NetworkManager: Frame 0:

Re: [OLPC/Paraguay] Debugging NetworkManager-0.7.2.995 + Power Management

2010-03-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 14:07 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 09:16 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: Yeah, I haven't been able to reproduce that, but I only have an XO1.5 with me (which doesn't have mesh), and I think the issue is timing related. So it's good that you can

Re: [OLPC/Paraguay] Debugging NetworkManager-0.7.2.995 + Power Management

2010-04-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 17:34 -0300, mabente wrote: Very sorry for the late response, here is the messages log and gdb backtrace log! Hopefully it will be helpful :) Yes, quite. Please try:

Re: [PATCH] Fix ethtool reporting no WOL options supported if WOL is not already active

2010-05-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 10:03 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: This patch fixes the libertas driver incorrectly reporting that Wake-on-LAN is not supported if Wake-on-LAN is currently disabled. Looks good to me; could you repost to linux-wirel...@vger so I can ack it and Linville will pick it up? Dan

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