Re: XO-1.75 progress

2010-11-12 Thread david
hat there was space in the design for a touchscreen, but that space would be used for better shock mounting if a suitible touchscreen was not found. David Lang > Would it help to make a small batch with touchscreens to get developers > started? > > > ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: F14 os3 development image released (XO-1 and XO-1.5)

2010-11-26 Thread david
external power, that can be considered AC and disable automatic power management. David Lang > There is a somewhat stale wiki page at > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Battery_and_power with a lot of user comments > about what happens if you try to charge an XO via various alternativ

Re: Proposal for new frozen repositories server

2011-02-07 Thread david
rent to users. now, when you do a checkout (including when you switch branches), you do need to make that checkout contain the correct files for that version. that will include copying the large binary versions for that version. David Lang

Re: new OLPC slackware 13.37 released (fwd)

2011-05-25 Thread david
so where do I get this slackware image for the OLPC from? David Lang On Sat, 21 May 2011, su...@supat.eu.org wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 20:47:55 +0700 (ICT) > From: su...@supat.eu.org > To: johnny nunez > Subject: new OLPC slackware

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-24 Thread david
very common case where the same component is wired to a different address) David Lang ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Oooh! Oooh! OMG! OO.org!

2012-01-18 Thread david
ts. how does OOo compare in compiled size with Libreoffice (which is what most distros are shipping nowdays). I know that Libreoffice has removed a ton of unused source from the project, but I don't know what the result is in terms of the size of the binary. David Lang __

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:56 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > If you don't turn many XOs on at the "same time", you won't have salut > preventing gabble to work. > My fear is that we are complicating things unnecessarily. But we _do_ turn on many XOs at the same time. Hell, we've seen one teacher p

Re: Wireshark

2008-02-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:02 -0500, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > 14:43:34 Err file about_dlg.c: line 250 (splash_update): assertion > failed: (ul_sofar <= ul_count) > Aborted (core dumped) We shouldn't be hacking epan/dissectors/register.c directly -- it's autogenerated. If we'd regenerated

Re: Wireshark

2008-02-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 04:37 -0500, John Watlington wrote: > http://dev.laptop.org/~wad/wireshark-0.99.7.mesh.patch Has this been submitted to the wireshark developers? I took a quick look through it and removed some whitespace noise, and spotted a change in add_fixed_field() behaviour in the CAT_

Re: Scanning and probe requests

2008-03-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 20:09 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > It may be possible that NetworkManager is triggering the scannings > (any other possibility?). Anyway, why 4 scan commands and how this > becomes 2 probe requests? Any ideas? We send multiple scan commands to the firmware for each scan co

Code For A Case: OLPC Hackathon

2008-03-14 Thread David Hodge
Hello, My name is David Hodge. I'm the treasurer of University of Southern California "Association of Computing Machinery" (ACM) and a member of "Free Culture USC". These two groups are partnering on upcoming event that I thought you might want to know about. In abou

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:09 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > Ashish comments on #6869: Firmware release - 5.110.22.p9 as follows: > > Currently firmware 5.110.22.p8/9 does not support more than 8 multicast > mac addresses. Is there a possibility that any given point of time there > are more tha

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:58 -0400, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > Mmm, if the driver says it is 32 and the firmware only allows for 8, > we have a problem, don't we? ;-) Indeed. Do we know which versions of firmware support which numbers of addresses? Remember, this driver handles lots of devices, some

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:43 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > Is it possible to associate shared activities with ethernet ports > instead of whole multicast addresses? Then we would only need one single > multicast address and do the filtering on the ethernet ports (eg IP is > port 0x0

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:50 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > what's possible? why not? > > David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:43 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > > > >> Is it possible to associate shared activities w

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:08 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > Dynamic mapping from a single 6-byte address to multiple 16-byte > addresses? The other way round. Given an IPv6 multicast address, there exists a MAC address associated with that IPv6 address. When we join the multicast gro

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:01 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > You're not following: Ethernet ports are bytes 12-14 (2 bytes total) on > _all_ ethernet frames. IP has nothing to do with this. Instead of > looking at the first 6 bytes (destination mac) for a specific multicast > address,

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:01 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > You're not following: Ethernet ports are bytes 12-14 (2 bytes total) on > _all_ ethernet frames. IP has nothing to do with this. Instead of > looking at the first 6 bytes (destination mac) for a specific multicast > address,

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:19 -0400, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > The multicast filter was implemented in 22p8 (with the limit of 8 since > them). Is that what you're asking? Then the firmware was just ignoring the MAC list before then, and always implementing the ALLMULTI behaviour? -- dwmw2 ___

Re: Building kernel RPMs with patches from git

2008-05-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:06 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Dennis, David, > > There is right now something that I am having trouble understanding > how it's done - related to kernel packaging. Is there any > documentation on how the RH team manages kernels with additional &

Re: Thin firmware + driver first development release

2008-05-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:06 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: > Hi, > > We are happy to announce the first development release of the wireless > firmware + driver compatible with the kernel's mac80211 stack. This is > a first step towards supporting a soft Access Point (hostap) on the > xo, a project i

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

2008-05-13 Thread David Woodhouse
e. > > Based on patches from Ashish Shukla and David Woodhouse. > > Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tested by: Ricardo Carrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looks good, but please don't introduce any more of the 'u8' and 'u32' nonsense.

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

2008-05-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:47 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 21:00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Each device maintains its own list of bound multicast addresses. Those > > lists > > are merged and purged from duplicate addresses before being

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

2008-05-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > And even without that, it doesn't seem to do the right thing. Set > IFF_PROMISC mode on one interface, then on the other, then clear it on > the first it should remain set in hardware. And AFAICT it doesn't.

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

2008-05-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 12:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:20:19 -0400 > Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:45:39 +0100 > > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue,

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

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 16:15 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:12:27 -0400 Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And FWIW, I like the 80 char limit _except_ when it comes to strings. > > I don't normally bother about the strings, unless it is obvious that > the surroun

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

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2008 22:59:26 +0100 > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 12:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:20:19 -0400 > > > A

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

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 19:12 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > Can we come to a consensus for the sake of outside contributors? > Rather than telling the cozybit folks one thing, and having checkpatch.pl > and CodingStyle claim another (Dave, surely you wouldn't argue against > using checkpatch?), can

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

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 02:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:39:19 +0100 David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 02:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:44:12 +0100 David Woodhouse <[

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

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 02:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:44:12 +0100 David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sorry if that offends you, but making code more readable helps me > > find real bugs, and that is more important to m

Re: School server stuff

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 23:49 -0400, John Watlington wrote: > On May 12, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Marcus Leech wrote: > > A few questions: > > > > What driver is required on an ordinary Linux system for the active > > antennae? > > [I ask because plugging one in to a hot-off-the-presses F9 system > > ca

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

2008-05-16 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:01 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: > This patch is based on a patch from Shailendra Govardhan. It introduces > several new iwprivs: {get,set}_bootflag {get,set}_boottime {get,set}_def_chan > {get,set}_def_protid {get,set}_def_metid {get,set}_def_meshcap > {get,set}_def_meshi

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

2008-05-18 Thread David Woodhouse
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 hence probably broken in some st

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

2008-05-19 Thread David Woodhouse
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? Because if it changes between any of the > firmware revisions alr

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

2008-05-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 20:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > Try it like this... completely untested and hence probably broken in > some stupid and minor way, but testing is something for tomorrow, not > Sunday night when I'm supposed to be cooking dinner. This version seems to w

Re: [PATCH olpc/stable] Rate adaptation configuration via iwconfig.

2008-05-23 Thread David Woodhouse
#x27;ve even moved it out of the big switch statements, which is great. Acked-By: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- dwmw2 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [sugar] Software Status Meeting Tomorrow @ 1400 EDT, 1800 UTC in #olpc-meeting on freenode

2008-05-28 Thread David Farning
Marco If you go with individuals keeping a personal TODO list on their user pages, it is very easy to create a master User:TODO list that aggregates all of the individual todo list. This is how I am setting http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/TODO . thanks David Farning ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:37 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: > The userspace tool is extremely awkward to use (since it requires the > driver modules to be unloaded which in turn makes the identification > of devices on the XO even more difficult) I believe there's a way for libusb to unbind the exi

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

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:12 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > So why are we doing this with the driver, and not the userspace update > tool? Marvell keeps wanting to do firmware update in the driver, and we > (David and I at least) keep saying no. If there are issues that prevent > t

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

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:34 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > 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 the userspace tool, since it will brick many of your active > a

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

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:44 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > Please check comment on: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Active_Antenna_Reprogramming#User_Space_Method Where am I looking? The 'has failed twice' claim? That's hardly a decent bug report. Put a coherent report in trac, and we'll look at it.

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

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
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 email exchanged with > dcbw and dwmw2 when I first discovered it. Didn't we fix that months ago by increasing th

Re: JFFS2 error messages

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 12:13 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > 2008/6/3 Bill Mccormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A couple of my XOs are reporting what look like FS error messages on boot: > > > > [91.463670] JFFS2 notice: (664) check_node_data: wrong data CRC in data > > node at 0x1ec215f0: read 0x3

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

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
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 the support from the kernel driver ages ago and wrote libertas-flash.py, M

Flash is too full

2008-06-09 Thread David Leeming
(as if Sugar is beginning to start) then flashes off and the command lines etc are seeneventually it says it is disabling for minutes due to "respawning too fast" and I have a window when I can log onto the back end / shell as root and type commands. But not sure what

Downloading large updates and builds in PNG

2008-06-09 Thread David Leeming
tel I am staying at. A quarter of the way into the download I loose my connection and the download is lost (with the money). Is it available on an FTP server which I think is more reliable? Can it be made available in smaller chunks? David Leeming ___

Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-11 Thread David Leeming
laptop, even with pressing the game keys it just boots normally without updating. I know I have some gaps in my knowledge regarding the keys and security for the G1G1 laptops, but unfortunately I need a quick answer. Much appreciate any help. David Leeming Deploying in PNG http

RE: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-12 Thread David Leeming
what happens is that if there is no Internet connection the XOs do not associate themselves persistently with the APs but "hang up" and go looking for the mesh. Do you know anything about that? David Leeming -Original Message- From: Bert Freudenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

RE: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-13 Thread David Leeming
Thanks John, but I did realise that simple fact. The APs do have DHCP server set up. They still move on. David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network Tel: +677 76396(m) 24419(h) 26358 (w) www.leeming-consulting.com -Original Message- From: John Watlington [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-14 Thread David Leeming
s cease to share and quickly drop out and look for the mesh. So, this duplicated the problem I described. I am now told that a jabber service is needed to keep the XOs interested and reliably collaborating, that maybe is the cause? Do you concur? I do appreciate your help... David Leemin

RE: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-20 Thread David Leeming
st wanted to give everyone an update. I bought a DLink DWL-2100AP which is what David and Ian are trying to implement for their XO rollouts. We found that we could not get DHCP working on the AP at all for either an XO or for an IBM laptop running Ubuntu. We tried several different firmware

Issue with activities using sounds and invite and power adapters

2008-06-20 Thread David Leeming
. Shipments MUST be sent with correct adapters. David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network Leeming Consulting P.O. Box 652, Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific Tel: +677 76396(m) 24419(h) 26358 (w) http://www.leeming-consulting.com

RE: Issue with activities using sounds and invite and power adapters

2008-06-20 Thread David Leeming
nning. TamTamMini is muted - Sometimes I have noticed the Record screen blank (i.e. no picture) and it seems to be associated with running Speak and/or Measure but I am unable to replicate. I am using the G1G1 activity pack downloaded two weeks ago, plus Speak 5. David Leeming Tech

Re: [sugar] Making updating easier and Planning for Support

2008-06-22 Thread David Farning
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 15:02 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote: > Deepak (and others interested in support), > > This is a good question and we've talked about it from time to time. > > The OLPC Support planning is really just now underway. We've made some > good progress on the Hardware side of support (spa

Re: [Techteam] [sugar] Making updating easier and Planning for Support

2008-06-23 Thread David Farning
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 10:36 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:29 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Two releases per year make sense. Particularly when add in the fact that > > we have two hemispheres with opposing springs and falls. &g

Re: [sugar] Relationships w/ upstream.

2008-07-07 Thread David Farning
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:37 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Since a conversation on IRC got unexpectedly heated, let me restate my > personal philosophy for OLPC's relationships with upstream: > > (a) I believe that we should put OLPC's goals *first*, and endeavor to > ensure that we are always m

Java

2008-07-14 Thread David Leeming
ASEAN Setting" which has hundreds of nice educational applets. Seems the last recorded activity on getting Java to work was about 5 months ago... or can anyone update me? David Leeming Solomon Islands ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lapto

Touch pad

2008-07-14 Thread David Leeming
! David Leeming Honiara ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

RE: Java

2008-07-15 Thread David Leeming
doesn't show up when I query about:plugins using the browser. This is exactly as described in the support tickets 865 and 6465 David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network Tel: +677 76396(m) 24419(h) 26358 (w) www.leeming-consulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROT

RE: Touch pad

2008-07-15 Thread David Leeming
uz symlink will not be updated correctly David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network Tel: +677 76396(m) 24419(h) 26358 (w) www.leeming-consulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2008 10:55 p.m. To: David Leemin

RE: Touch pad

2008-07-16 Thread David Leeming
early to make any conclusions, as maybe it wasn't installed properly. David Leeming OLPC Coordinator, SPC and Technical Advisor, People First Network Honiara, Solomon Islands -Original Message- From: Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard A. Smith Sent: Thursda

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 09:51 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: > On Jul 21 2008, at 13:39, C. Scott Ananian was caught saying: > > > 2) JFFS2's behavior when the file system is almost full. When it gets > > > almost full, it can spend all its time trying to garbage collect, and > > > you can lose complet

Java and Watch-Listen nonfree

2008-07-21 Thread David Leeming
unity mailing list did not reply.... David Leeming Honiara, Solomon Islands -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomeu Vizoso Sent: Friday, 18 July 2008 7:23 a.m. To: David Leeming Subject: Re: Java On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:00 PM, David Le

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 10:29 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: > I can go ahead and apply the existing Nokia patch into the 8.2 kernel as > a short-term measure but don't want to arbitrarilly choose a reservation > size. > Dave, do you have a suggestion as to what percentage should be reserved to > kee

Re: Remarks on the Work of Sugar

2008-07-23 Thread David Farning
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 19:49 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > After mild provocation, Marco and Tomeu asked me to publish some of my > reactions to sugar's architecture, design, and implementation. Here are > a few initial comments. Michael, many of your observation are correct...as are many of respon

RE: Touch pad

2008-07-30 Thread David Leeming
ees C. Very bad conditions for the touch pad! David Leeming OLPC Coordinator, SPC and Technical Advisor, People First Network Honiara, Solomon Islands -Original Message- From: Erik Garrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Garrison Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2008 10:49 a.m. To: D

Re: Another sugar rant (was: x2o physics problem solving game)

2008-08-06 Thread David Farning
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 18:08 +1200, Neil Graham wrote: > > With regards to using activities on the XO I've tried to be accepting of the > sugar interface style, but this activity crystallizes things for me. I'm now > prepared to move to the sugar-sucks camp. I've used many and written a few >

Re: Suspend vs Network Traffic - blockers

2008-08-13 Thread David Woodhouse
't neighbour solicitation happen as multicast, so you only need the wake-on-multicast for that? -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intel Corporation ___ Devel m

Re: [sugar] OT: Anybody worked with robot and OLPC

2008-09-02 Thread David Farning
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 19:01 -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: > Hi > > maybe this can be of interest, > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Robots > > this is planned with open hardware. > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Hardware. > > > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Carl

[PATCH 1/3] Use PCI_DEVICE_ID_88ALP01 for CAFÉ chip, rather than PCI_DEVICE_ID_CAFE.

2008-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
Probably better to use the official designation. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- (Carried in git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/random-2.6.git) drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pci.c |2 +- include/linux/pci_ids.h |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 del

[PATCH 2/3] [MTD] [NAND] Define and use PCI_DEVICE_ID_MARVELL_88ALP01_NAND for CAFÉ

2008-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- (Carried in git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/random-2.6.git) drivers/mtd/nand/cafe_nand.c |6 +- include/linux/pci_ids.h |1 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/cafe_na

[PATCH 3/3] Define and use PCI_DEVICE_ID_MARVELL_88ALP01_CCIC for CAFÉ camera driver

2008-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
Also, stop looking at the NAND controller (0x4100) and checking the device class. For a while during development, all three functions on the chip had the same ID. We made them fix that fairly promptly, and we can forget about it now. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- (C

Re: [sugar] Give a Laptop, Change the World : G1G1 2008

2008-10-08 Thread David Farning
This is also a Sugar Labs branding issue. Sugar Learning Platform does a better job of conveying we are not a stand alone solution. We are a common point of collaboration on which educators and developers build solutions for their own unique classrooms and situations. thanks david On Wed, Oct

Re: LBA NAND corruption

2008-10-21 Thread David Woodhouse
stuff in software, if you have a bug you can whip the developers harder. When something goes wrong inside the device's internal firmware, there really isn't much you can do about it at all. -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre

Re: LBA NAND corruption

2008-10-21 Thread David Woodhouse
we could in fact get some of your cycles; I'm > just saying that the answer doesn't seem obvious and straightforward.) Now I work for Intel, I hear occasional vague rumours that you found something wrong, but you never actually seem to _tell_ me so... -- David Woodhouse

Re: New mesh throughput record?

2008-10-22 Thread David Woodhouse
e on the concurrency issues, then we could sensibly look at moving the actual TX handling back into the TX routines. Carefully. -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intel Corporation _

Re: Thread on a new model for collaboration

2008-10-29 Thread David Cavallo
ry schools around the world. I'm *very* interested in following up on what the current crop of LMSs are missing, could do different, etc. Apologies -- I didn't know you used moodle -- I had asked David Cavallo and Carla and neither had knowledge of Moodle, which to me was a surpris

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: Language learning on the XO.

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
 FWIW.  I have had a number of high school teacher and university instructors ask about using the xo as a language learning appliance.  The two reoccurring themes have been:XO as a portable language lab.Ability to develop a language learning activity which could tailor itself to the needs of an

Re: [sugar] Postponement of XOCamp Event to January

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:06 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The OLPC XOCamp event being planned for November 17 – 21 is be

Re: setup for XO development

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
t. > > Actually, for a variety of reasons, I'm working quite hard to make > rainbow usable on stock linux machines like those represented by > Debian and Fedora chroots. > Michael, Could you provide a high level comment on the feasibility of running rainbow as a security mechanism

Re: OLPC France CodeCamp in Paris

2008-11-01 Thread David Farning
This sounds very interesting and useful. A nice breadth of projects to keep things interesting and cross pollinate ideas between groups that might not interact frequently. thanks david 2008/11/1 LASKE, Lionel (C2S) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > > > > OLPC France is

Re: What's cooking inthe XS pot -- 2008-11-05

2008-11-05 Thread David Farning
peatable event > - Browse.xo using our poxy proxy explicitly > - Browse.xo doing automagic authentication with XS > - multicast XS-to-XO NAND flashing (but Mitch is not here :-/) > > There is a lot we can do for the XO but most of it we can achieve > without explicit changes

Re: What's cooking inthe XS pot -- 2008-11-05

2008-11-05 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:31 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Do you think xs will be stable enough to do a server related book sprint > at > > Fedora/OLPC/Sugar (FOS)co

Re: Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread David Farning
from the above schedule. Oh, and we'll do > our best to get all of these talks recorded, digitized, and posted for > anyone not present (or enjoying an overly-leisurely lunch, say). > --scott > scott It looks like Bernie start a on-line schedule at http://sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sug

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] OLPC France CodeCamp in Paris

2008-11-15 Thread David Farning
nama y Peru > por una parte, y los desarroladores en Paris, por si alguien necesita. > > Bests, saludos > Great work Samy! Your project embodies what I hope is becoming the development for Sugar Labs. Bringing together smart and passionate people to work on interest

Re: [sugar] dinner around cambridge on sunday

2008-11-15 Thread David Farning
So, what about meeting for having some food and drinks somewhere not > far from Davis Square? > > My plane is scheduled to arrive at 21.45, so I would go directly to > wherever people choose. > > Regards, > > Tomeu Sounds good. david ___

Touch pads

2008-11-24 Thread David Leeming
inger salute, rebooting, etc. Despite this, he managed to do the attached with Paint in the morning when it was cooler. During the afternoon the temperature must have been 35 deg C and 90% humidity. Is this problem likely to be solved with software updates? David Leeming Solomon Islands,

RE: Touch pads

2008-11-25 Thread David Leeming
Ties, I am afraid that I have to agree, although not to distract from the brilliance of the rest of itonly to raise the importance of this issue. In our case one large (relative in our region) country is looking closely at a big commitment and these things are not helpful. David Leeming OLPC

RE: Touch pads

2008-11-25 Thread David Leeming
the effect. David Leeming OLPC Coordinator, SPC and Technical Advisor, People First Network Honiara, Solomon Islands -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Drake Sent: Wednesday, 26 November 2008 10:39 a.m. To: Ties Stuij Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Server-devel] Content in Moodle

2008-11-26 Thread David Leeming
ver). That would combine video chat with sharing a whiteboard, with ability to post slides, annotate them etc. Also, an offline wiki on the server would be useful. Any ideas would be appreciated. David Leeming OLPC Coordinator, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) www.spc.int Tech

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread David Farning
administration is extremely > valuable, but that assistance must be coordinated and communicated with the > rest of the team. > Is coordination and communication a one-way street:( Several efforts have been made recently to coordinate and communicate... only to be met with silence. dav

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David - > > I don't understand that comment. What "several efforts" are you talking > about? I don't think there were several efforts to publicize this outage - > if so, the scop

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was speaking of larger communication issues. > > Whoa, David -- is it necessary to assume malice? I don't

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-10 Thread David Woodhouse
bs=1M count=20" accomplish this? > (When a program expects a block device argument, you can give a raw > "mtd0" instead.) No, that's only for mount. -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [IAEP] XOCamp diplomas? + beg for housing

2009-01-06 Thread David Farning
; and I'd like some resources for printing the things (printer and nice paper, > or a few bucks to acquire [the use of] those). If you could put this together that would be great. We can then use that as an example for future events. I can get you the money. We can take care of the details in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-24 Thread David Farning
James, Can you try running ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck ? david On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > [adding sugar-devel to cc] > > 2009/1/23 James Simmons : >> Jigish, >> >> OK, I uninstalled both sugar and sugar-activities, then installed just >&g

Re: [Systems] My git problem resolved

2009-02-09 Thread David Farning
Thanks david On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:58 AM, James Simmons wrote: > I was having a problem pushing committed changes to gitorious and I > assumed that the problem was either with the way I created my RSA key or > a problem with the git server. After doing some research on the messag

Re: [Sugar-devel] Build intrastructure

2009-02-11 Thread David Farning
3 is down bs4 is now online, running as a buildbot. I can create users as necessary on these machines. So, we can let Bernie can focus on real 'developer' issues:) david ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities migration status

2009-02-12 Thread David Farning
le's work. While you wait for a best case scenario We will continue to move forward one step at a time. david > SJ > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Luke Faraone wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >>> >>> I like that

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing folders

2009-02-12 Thread David Leeming
Martin, Your solution works great! I just used a link in the Who.php file. I'll try the latter later. David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands Alternative email address: leemingda...@yahoo.com.au -Original Message- From: David Leeming [mailto

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