Re: [olpc-nz] Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ

2009-12-14 Thread Alastair Munro
Hi Cameron,

I checked a couple of the laptops after seeing your email about the
suspending, the wifi disappearing was after a suspend. I was thinking of
suspend in the terms of a normal laptop where suspending effectively turns
off the computer and saves state to the hard disk. I find it odd that the
suspend is still allowed to occur even when running off AC power though.

 -Alastair

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:13 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:

 G'day Alastair,

 Thanks for responding.  I'd like to drill down further into the facts
 just to make sure we're not missing anything.

 On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:19:19AM +1300, Alastair Munro wrote:
  We did not disable suspend before testing, all these observations were
  made on a fresh boot while plugged into AC power with no suspending.

 You did not disable suspend, yet there was no suspending at all?  That's
 surprising.  The design since about build os49 is that dim screen with
 begin at about 15 seconds and suspend will begin at about 25 seconds of
 idle.  The suspend doesn't turn off the screen, so you might not notice
 it.  The power LED begins to blink at about a five second rate.

 Can you confirm that you keep the keyboard and touchpad active, and
 never idle for more than 30 seconds?  It is very hard to do that,
 especially with other people interrupting.

  The wireless just didn't seem to activate at all. When checking
  'ifconfig -a' the only device shown was the local loopback device
  'lo'.

 This is quite consistent with not knowing that an automatic idle suspend
 has happened.

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 James Cameron
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Re: [olpc-nz] Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ

2009-12-13 Thread Alastair Munro
We did not disable suspend before testing, all these observations were made
on a fresh boot while plugged into AC power with no suspending. The wireless
just didn't seem to activate at all. When checking 'ifconfig -a' the only
device shown was the local loopback device 'lo'.

-Alastair

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:11 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:

 On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 01:40:04PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote:
  On all XO 1.5s we updated to OS54 wifi does not work (except on 1 of 5
  machines showed wireless connections for about 20 seconds then gone)
  although we now realise there is OS56 so maybe we need to just update
  again.

 You probably hit the known problem described in the release candidate
 announcement If you have a B2 without hardware mods, you must disable
 suspend using Control Panel-Power-Automatic power management, else
 your wireless device will disconnect on suspend and not come back until
 the next reboot.

 Can you confirm that you did not disable suspend before testing
 wireless?

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