Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-14 Thread Javier Cardona
Rob, > After brainstorming with some other folks at Hacker's, our feeling is the > problem was caused by having multiple APs with the same identical SSID, > but multiple MACs. This should be easy to reproduce if you can > reconfigure several APs without causing other problems. :-) It would be a g

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-14 Thread Rob Savoye
Noah Kantrowitz wrote: > We can always lock the mesh interface to a single channel, and keep the > normal APs on the two others. Also turning down the Tx power will reduce > interference with normal 802.11b/g. As an absolute fall-back, there is a > snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the wir

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Burns
On Nov 12, 2007 9:18 AM, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/11/07, Noah Kantrowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As an absolute fall-back, there is a > > snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the wireless interface > > ("Airplane mode" or similar IIRC). > > I've never se

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
> Laura Creighton wrote: > > I am at a conference. > > there are many OLPCs here. They are interfering with the wireless > > here. They apparantly do this even when not officially trying to be > > connected to the network, > > just being powered on is enough. Knowing what version of the softw

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Burns
On Nov 12, 2007 9:18 AM, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed that mesh activity appears to be ALWAYS on. Even when > the laptop is not doing anything, as in not conected to a school/local > mesh and not sharing any activity. Sometimes even on Suspend mode I > see the W

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-12 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: > I've noticed that mesh activity appears to be ALWAYS on. Even when > the laptop is not doing anything, as in not conected to a school/local > mesh and not sharing any activity. Sometimes even on Suspend mode I > see the Wireless activity light flashing. I'm sure th

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-12 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
I've noticed that mesh activity appears to be ALWAYS on. Even when the laptop is not doing anything, as in not conected to a school/local mesh and not sharing any activity. Sometimes even on Suspend mode I see the Wireless activity light flashing. I'm sure this somehow drains batteries faster th

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-11 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
We can always lock the mesh interface to a single channel, and keep the normal APs on the two others. Also turning down the Tx power will reduce interference with normal 802.11b/g. As an absolute fall-back, there is a snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the wireless interface ("Airplane mode