Hello Chris, Hi Daf, Great news.
I am located in Peru, tomorrow (today!) On Monday, we (a group of volunteers in Peru) will mount a small lab for helping the global OLPC efforts. I have check the info about the School Server, I understand that the info on the wiki can be a little old or not upgraded... no problem. We would thank if you update us with the configuration that we must set up for the school servers, because I have found this contradictory info: a) Networking devices: there is instructions (written) that the school server must have 4 network connections (UTP) to avoid the use of external switches. But there is a diagram (image) that shows an external switch to develop a network. b) we can use wi.fi access point (linksys) to emulate the OLPC access point... but we need confirmation about what trademark are you using for the access points... in this way we can use the same. c) Are the School Servers that will be installed in Peru without fans? (wich motherboard) What is the intended energy that the School Server must consume? This includes only the CPU or includes the switches/monitor/modem and other equipment related to the CPU? What about the access point? Finally, we have strong interest in "connecting" this Linux (XOs or regular native installions over x86 machines) to the "normal" Windows systems. The most possible scenary that the OLPC project will find here in Peru is that it will be needed to send a "USB mule" to the nearest point/town with regular internet access (internet cafe or "cabina"). We are studying the Wizzy and all the UUCP related issues. We have detected the need to particularize some aspects due to the nature of Internet in Peru (mostly related to the dominant position of some telecoms here and its reluctant participation in something that will not be under they control... more than 10 years of this position will not change over the night). If you have solutions studied for this "USB mule" transport then we will stop our worries and studies and turn to other issues, please let us know. Thanks and we hope to collaborate with our small forces here. Best regards, Javier Rodriguez Lima, Peru Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > Daf and I got the school server jabberd/shared roster working today. > We connected/registered 32 laptops to it with mesh TTL set to 1 for > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel