On Oct 5, 2012, at 12:59 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> Qemu's "user-mode" is a lot more practical. We would need a minimal
>> fedora x86 chroot that has wine, and use qemu over that. After a bit
>> of googling, I found PRoot, which seems
Hi,
We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 11.3.1 for XO-1,
XO-1.5 and as a formal release for XO-1.75. Details of new
features, known issues, and how to download/install/upgrade can all be
found in the release notes:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.1
Many thanks to all co
Fernando, Carlos,
Hola Amigos.
First, we'll troubleshoot this and then I'll tell you why this setup is
problematic.
2wire: 192.168.1.254
XS: 192.168.1.253
XOs: 192.168.1.0 -- > .252
On the XS:
-Did you save the static ip changes to the file:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-local?
-
After a few minutes of installation and a few s/r cycles I lost mouse and kb in
Gnome…
On Nov 15, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> The "cpu0 on fire" build, where runin can read cpu temp invoking black
> OFW magic. Also contains assorted fixes to audio, power management, a
> better s/
On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 23 2011, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>>> You should modify the subpage for the release you're working on --
>>> see e.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/11.2
>>
>&
On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 23 2011, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> I believe OOB is pulling activities and version information from here:
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1
>>> Update the links to the latest version and on the next build you should
On Aug 23, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> SOPs covering the basics are always useful though, being "dynamic" is
>>> a cop out excuse IMO and SOPs help for when people
On May 10, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On 05/05/2011 9:58 AM, "Chris Ball" wrote:
> There's interest, but it's more complicated than you think. As I
> understand it, customization sticks can be signed and run in
secure mode
> because they perform no side-effects outside of /
German,
You are at a point where you must define your own public DNS server.
Hosted at your own public IP address. On the following site we show
the technique. The configuration is not exactly the same but similar:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Builder/Adding_OpenDNS_Configuration#Configure_
On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:39 AM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote:
>
> On 15 February 2011 13:27, Chris Ball wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ? > # You can reverse the disable-security command by entering
>> ? > enable-security at the 'ok' prompt. Security will then be
>> ? > permanently enabled until disa
Martin,
Isn't a pre-requisite to also remove root? Alternatively have you
considered rebuilding initrd signed with ARG keys to check and readd
the config on every reboot if it has been removed?
Regards,
Reuben
On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Working recently in La Ri
doing the deployment in the field a bit
> easier - though the firmware is not always perfect and not always
> working out of the box with all hardware options.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
> On 25/08/2010, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:13 A
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:24:38 -0300
> From: Martin Langhoff
> Subject: Re: Installing single file via signed OFW script
> To: James Cameron , Paul Fox ,
> Mitch
>Bradley , OLPC Devel
> Message-ID:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Wed, Aug
On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> They are only able to achieve this with 30dB attenuators on the
> signal. We would want to see what one can do with stock cards
> without an attenuator.
Can we adaptively get the signal down in driver/software?
_
On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:29 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> Hm well, you at least got me thinking how we can make a small
> dense indoor mesh working without APs interesting challenge.
> Like think about replacing those smart APs by a distributed version.
> Interesting...
>
> a.
Maybe a
On Aug 24, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> The largest of our mesh problems did not have to do with scalability
> on sheer number of nodes but rather scalability in density. Is
> there any information available on how these networks perform when
> there are 50 - 100 of them ne
On Aug 24, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> I'm not talking about comparison to our previous mesh.
Thanks keeping me on track.
> I'm talking about comparison to an AP. Overall we currently don't
> have much need for "mesh" as most of our scenarios are a dense cloud
> of childre
On Aug 24, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> On 08/24/2010 10:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>
> > Consider the benefits of using open source software versus our
> closed
> > source firmware and partnering with communities like Freifunk whose
> > network
On Aug 24, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Chris Ball wrote:
The fact that a custom mesh algorithm would have to run on the CPU --
prohibiting any kind of idle-suspend -- makes it a non-starter for an
XO deployment in my eyes. Did you have any thoughts on this?
Hi Chris,
Great point. Thank you for brin
Where Mesh != 802.11s but rather an adhoc, self healing, self
organizing routable network.
Imagine a world where Sugar on a Stick machines can communicate on the
same network as an XO laptop. A world where mesh capabilities are
hardware agnostic allowing anyone to bring up a mesh network by
There has been a lot of great progress with the Read and Get-Books
(IA) activities. However, we have neglected to think about how we can
better fit all of these pieces together. For instance, consider
deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package
these files into .xol
XO 1.5
Thanks,
Reuben
On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On XO-1? Or XO-1.5?
>
> Maybe I typo'ed the rpm name...
>
>
> m
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Reuben K. Caron
> wrote:
>> Martin,
>> Esteban found that xorg-x11
On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:00 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote:
Message: 7
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:22:27 -0400
From: John Watlington
Subject: Re: xo-1 os300 -- switch off mesh?
To: Martin Langhoff
Cc: OLPC Devel
Message-ID:
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On Jul 12, 2010,
On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Reuben K. Caron
> wrote:
>> ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin -silent -eulaAccepted
>
> Excelent! Where the #$%^ did you find that that documented?
>
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1
On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Reuben K. Caron
wrote:
Yes and no. Anyone technically capable to rebuild our build system,
as you
mention below, will be able to easily script the installation of AIR.
Nope. I am fairly good with it
David,
Also to be clear, the SOAS will not connect to the AA (Active Antenna).
Reuben
On Mar 29, 2010, at 3:42 PM, David Leeming wrote:
> OK so it should work I assume you're using an AP and I am using
> an AA.
> Thatb is the only difference as far as I can see. I will try again
> with
w.leeming-consulting.com
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Reuben K. Caron [mailto:reu...@laptop.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2010 2:00 a.m.
> To: David Leeming
> Cc: XS Devel
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: [SoaS] wireless connection school
> server
dea; I just wanted to be
> sure that if a deployment decided on their own that they needed to
> provide the Adobe Flash player, OLPC wasn't unreasonably making it
> harder than necessary for them.
>
> - Ed
>
> On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:44 AM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> Maybe the reason we're miscommunicating is that you don't
>>> understand that we aren't willing to expect that our users have
>>> access to another computer running Windows (because they don't)
>>> [..]
>
>> This is an odd argument consi
On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Reuben K. Caron
> wrote:
>> IMHO, OLPC would be able to provide deployments with the option of
>> including
>> Adobe Flash, while continuing to include Gnash as default
>
&g
Carlos,
+1
Thank you for bringing this up.
FYI: One of our largest deployments and two other smaller deployments
have received approval to ship Adobe Flash in their builds.
IMHO, OLPC would be able to provide deployments with the option of
including Adobe Flash, while continuing to includ
This is an odd argument considering it is quite difficult for a user
to create a simple reflash USB stick while using Sugar. Instead we
recommend using another computer that uses a regular "Desktop.(1)"
(1)http://wiki.laptop.org/go/No-fail_update
On Mar 23, 2010, at 9:46 PM, devel-requ...@li
Have you tried Firefox? Check the bug here for more details:
http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1700
On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:33 AM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote:
Message: 1
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:53:18 -0300
From: Marcos Orfila
Subject: Java applets in Browse activity
To: devel@lists.
On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:52 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
You have to ensure that the firmware reflash actually occurred
properly
before continuing.
>>>
>>> ...
>>> I believe the above actions are the "normal" ones to perform a
>>> firmware
>>> reflash. When you say "you have to
The same procedure worked correctly for me on a ramp unit that has the
solar modification by Wad.
On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:44 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> XO-1.5 B2 (unmodified hardware). At ok prompt did 'flash u:
> \q3a35.rom';
> after restart did 'fs-update u:\os112.zd'. That failed (with a
On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Reuben K. Caron
> wrote:
>> 2.2 GB
>
> Cool.
>
> BTW, I just reviewed the src for olpc-switch-desktop and I think that
> if you just
>
> ln -s /home/liveuser /home/olpc
>
On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Reuben K. Caron
wrote:
FWIW, I tried almost the same exact process on a machine that I had
installed Blueberry on by using the zyx-installer. Blueberry was
installed.
I ran yum groupinstall "GNOME De
On Feb 9, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> (I am not sub'd to the soas list -- can a kind admin whitelist me?)
>
> Your e-mail seems to have made it through to the archives, so you
> should be good. :)
>
>> Hi OLPC, SoaS folks,
>>
>> we have a deployment t
Martin,
It looks like SOAS Strawberry will more closely relate to OLPC F11
builds. Strawberry is based on F11 and Sugar 0.84.
Reuben
On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> (I am not sub'd to the soas list -- can a kind admin whitelist me?)
>
> Hi OLPC, SoaS folks,
>
> we have a
Martin,
Blueberry is based on F12. The package differences will be much
different.
Reuben
On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> (I am not sub'd to the soas list -- can a kind admin whitelist me?)
>
> Hi OLPC, SoaS folks,
>
> we have a deployment that wants to use SoaS for early
On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:29 AM, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote:
> Any other major blocker that deserves attention?
Have the items here been resolved?
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2010-January/msg00020.html
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On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:59 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> It's a good idea and is doable, although not for friday. You should
> put it in trac (and the SL one too).
Done:
http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1610
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9845
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, Neil Graham wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:13 -0500, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
Since .XO and .XOL bundles were specifically designed to be "safe"
for
installation and removal, I'm concerned the inclusion of gnome-
packagekit would allow one to more easily break their installati
On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:52 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron :
>> -Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality?
>> -Or would including it increase the complexities of managing
>> deployments?
>
> One disadvantage of doing this is th
On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:12 PM, John Watlington wrote:
>
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>
>> Daniel,
>>
>> Since we've run into problems with creating ad-hocs networks on the
>> XO
>> 1.5 (1) (2), I've been thinking about thi
Daniel,
Since we've run into problems with creating ad-hocs networks on the XO
1.5 (1) (2), I've been thinking about this functionality, the change
in UI behavior and perhaps the decrease in usability and I don't like
it. I believe it is clunky to have children create their own
networks..W
In the sugar environment we have the great resource of activities.sugarlabs.org
that children can browse through to add new activities. However, on
the Gnome side of things we only have the yum terminal commands. While
I realize children can add, remove, and install programs using such
com
As I said it can be launched in Gnome through /home/olpc/Activities/
OOo4Kids.activity/resources/program/soffice. So I guess the question
becomes is it sufficient to just link to this in the Gnome side and if
so how can our build system incorporate this in the process?
I believe we are doing
With the localization question sorted out.
Now how about my question on getting ooo4kids linked on the Gnome side
so both sugar and Gnome can share the same program?
I believe we are doing this with etoys. Can we do it with ooo4kids?
Reuben
On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Bastien wrote:
> Ed McN
The only different one that comes to mind is WikiBrowse, a Wiki Slice.
We have both an English and Spanish version. (*No French yet...*)
However, as Martin said, aside from Activities where the localization
work has not been done yet, OLPC does attempt to ship software that
contains localiz
On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Chris Ball wrote:
Hi,
[Added ericb to CC; Eric, we're talking about which applications to
include by default on our OLPC XO-1.5 software release.]
How about suggestions for programs on the Gnome side?
That's a good idea, thanks.
I haven't decided what to do ab
How about suggestions for programs on the Gnome side?
On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:57 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote:
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:05:53 -0500
From: Chris Ball
Subject: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5
To: devel@lists.laptop.org
Cc: i...@lists.sugarlabs.org
Messa
Martin,
By modifying the jffs2 images directly won't we lose the customized
tarball and contents file that the XS uses to provide OS updates to XOs?
DSD has a good how to here that illustrates what I mean:
http://wiki.paraguayeduca.org/index.php/Construir_OS
Reuben
On Nov 17, 2009, at 3:54
Steven,
Great. I'll look forward to testing. Would it be possible and make
sense to begin including DSD's the implement mesh support for F11:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-September/025645.html
Regards,
Reuben
On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Steven M. Parrish wrote:
> http://wik
Martin,
Glad to hear you found the root cause. If we can come up with one or two
simple commands for the OLPCorps teams to type at the command line to fix
this and then enable squid; I'm sure they will be glad to do so.
Thanks,
Reuben
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> Supe
s not exactly the same, it includes a fix for
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8857 too.
>
> Daniel
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The G1G1 set of activities (1) on wiki.laptop.org was updated to include
Browse-102, I believe at the time the composite image was created for
8.2.1. This version does appear to work on 8.2.1 and has your auto-login
magic working with an updated XS 0.5.2.
Can we get a definitive answer on which to
All of the documentation is contained within their download. It appears
like a nice lightweight solution. It is basically a captive portal that
requires authentication before allowing access to the internet. It takes
a different approach then netreg using dynamically created iptables
generated afte
eer-to-peer file-sharing services such as Bittorrent, EMule, Gnutella
>
> In general, censorship is bad and morally wrong; and automated, computerized
> censorship especially so; and we should never refer to it by a purpose-made
> and innocuous-sounding term like "filtering" o
Daniel Drake wrote:
> 2009/2/4 John Watlington :
>
>> I insist on b) in order to prevent inadvertent "bricking" of laptops
>> by typing "enable-security",
>>
>
> Are you concerned that there is a realistic and common use case when a
> particular type of user would want or need to run enab
There seems to be a differing set of instructions on how to upgrade:
from the wiki:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Upgrading_from_XS_0.4_or_earlier
"If you are upgrading from XS 0.4 or earlier, the process is similar to
a new installation, with some minor changes. In the menu sh
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Peter Robinson wrote:
Hi Chris,
> I would remove the old fc9 build from the olpc_development repo (or
> even have one for 8.2.0 and one for 9.1.0 so they don't get mixed
> up). Surely it should be pulling cyrus-sasl from the Fedora repos
> anyway?
I've just pushed a patch to pilgri
Michael,
The build was successfully made on both F10 and Intrepid.
How could I slip in a language pack?
How could I set the Timezone for the build?
How could I set the default language for sugar?
Regards,
Reuben
Michael Stone wrote:
> Reuben,
>
> I was able to reproduce and work around the rpm
Yes it matches:
[r...@schoolserver ~]# sha1sum /etc/yum.conf
8970c4d97f3f90eb17520ea3d8590b24bc7f4691 /etc/yum.conf
Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>
>> Yes, there is a yum.conf.rpmnew present (attached)
>> No, it has
Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>
>> Martin Langhoff wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>yum repolist --enablerepo=*
>>>> repolist: 0
>>>
Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>
>>yum repolist --enablerepo=*
>> repolist: 0
>>
> ...
>
>> This is on an upgrade from 0.4
>>
>
> Doesn't sound good. Some more questions
testing/olpc/9/i386/xs-config-0.5.7.g11aaacf-1.noarch.rpm
>
> or perform
>
> yum --enablerepo=olpcxstesting install xs-config
>
> thanks everyone -- specially Anna -- for you help and patience.
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> martin
>
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In my tests the following works on a fresh installation without
modifying the xs_bonding:
Put this in /etc/rc.local
ifenslave lanbond0 eth1
Reboot. And there we go:
Anna wrote:
> This is probably far from ideal, but it works for me and I'm putting it out
> there in case you're messing with X
one
> of the test machines in Wellington has an e1000 and it worked
> correctly for me (with a crossover cable to the AP).
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
>
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/olpc-scripts/domain_config xs5.org ; this does
generate xs_domain_name in the correct /etc/sysconfig directory.
Reuben
Anna wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Reuben K. Caron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Actually, I just tried a clean install and DHCP do
Actually, I just tried a clean install and DHCP doesn't come up. When I
check status it continues to tell me that I must run network-config and
domain-config before DHPCd can start; even though I have run those
repeatedly.
Reuben
Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
> Clean 0.5
> installs work better for y
Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Reuben K. Caron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I too am having problems with DHCP (and ejabberd) on XS 0.5.
>>
>
> That's interesting! Thanks for the writeup...
>
>
>> I reviewe
Yes, it is on the server. However isn't it a bit chicken and egg setting
an ip address that will be on the wire given that the device on the wire
is waiting for an ip address from the server?
Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>> Thanks for clarification. Still no go:
>
XS 0.4 does include a backup and restore functionality. The restore is
through a web interface that can be accessed at
http://schoolserver/ds-restore. The one caveat to this functionality is
that it requires the XO to be running 8.2 (in order for the backup to run).
Bryan Berry wrote:
> On Mon, 2
schoolserver
xo-1-olpc-stream-8.2-build-767-20081001_1616-devel_jffs2
Regards,
Reuben
Martin Langhoff wrote:
The script needs the "tree" file and its corresponding .md5, not the
'tar.gz' file. The rest seems correct.
cheers,
m
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Reu
I'm attempting to populate /library/pub/builds following the link:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-rsync
I have tried making a usb key and tried from the command line.
Could someone please review the files I'm attempting this with located at:
http://dev.laptop.org/~reuben/xs-xobuilds/
Thanks,
Reu
Are there any suggestions or activities that address the needs of children
with disabilities? For instance, at the moment we have a request
for assistance with students with visual impairments.
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