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

2008-06-03 Thread Ricardo Carrano
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:08 PM, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2008-06-03 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:08 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: 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.

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

2008-06-03 Thread Michail Bletsas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:20:51 AM: 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

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread ffm
C. Scott Ananian-3 wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#USB_upgrade This will not work if the OS is not bootable and no alt-os image is on the disk. C. Scott Ananian-3 wrote: Finally, 8.2 will have better backup/restore functionality, so the real solution then will be

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:37 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 10:12:31 AM: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:18 -0400, John Watlington wrote: On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:08 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: 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

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_boot2 echo firmware_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_fw So why are we doing this with the driver, and not the

[Server-devel] uruguay server hardware

2008-06-03 Thread John Watlington
There has been some questions about what hardware Uruguay is using for school servers. They are placing a second tender right now, but the first batch of servers were: (An IBM x3105) 1.6 - 1.8 GHz AMD processor 2 GB RAM 160 GB disk (two drives, in RAID 1) three NICs (one WAN, and two LAN)

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

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 the userspace firmware

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:34 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name

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

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

2008-06-03 Thread Ricardo Carrano
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_boot2 echo firmware_image_name

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes

2008-06-03 Thread Yama Ploskonka
I second this request for off-internet solutions. I am currently cooperating with a Bolivian Ministry of Education project for community/school centers which depends largely on blogging and such tools, so I am following this thread closely for concepts / ideas / solutions that would be

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 Ricardo Carrano
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:49 AM, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

JFFS2 error messages

2008-06-03 Thread Bill Mccormick
Hi, 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 0x3e7c7e03, calculated 0xf7e1d50c ... is this a known problem? Should I raise a ticket for it, and where is

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

2008-06-03 Thread Ricardo Carrano
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#USB_upgrade You can also boot from the ext2 build on an SD card as a recovery mechanism. Finally, 8.2 will have better backup/restore functionality, so the real solution then will be reflash+restore. Please don't use the autoreinstallation key. It has past

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:28 AM, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C. Scott Ananian-3 wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#USB_upgrade This will not work if the OS is not bootable and no alt-os image is on the disk. We should continue to try very hard not to let the OS become unbootable.

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

2008-06-03 Thread Michail Bletsas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 10:12:31 AM: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_boot2 echo firmware_image_name

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

2008-06-03 Thread Ricardo Carrano
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2008-06-03 Thread John Watlington
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. wad On Jun 3, 2008, at 10:49 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:44 -0300, Ricardo Carrano

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 the

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes

2008-06-03 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Yama and Wad, Give us a blog hosting app. and an API. EduBlog adds a one click HTML front end with an option for teachers to approve posts. The blog can be hosted anywhere routable from XS (e.g. on XS itself), no internet needed. That's the idea, we'll see how it turns out :-) I'll leave it

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:26 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:37 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 10:12:31 AM: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:30 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:20:51 AM: 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

Software Status Meeting Tomorrow @ 1600 EDT, 2000 UTC in #olpc-meeting on freenode

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Stone
Martin Langhoff, our esteemed school-server architect asked us if we could wake him up at 6:00 AM (in NZ) instead of 4:00 (AM). Can we oblige? Please note the new times: 4:00 PM EST, 2000 UTC. I expect that we'll spend the bulk of our time discussing work toward 8.2.0, a.k.a. the August

Re: JFFS2 error messages

2008-06-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
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 0x3e7c7e03, calculated 0xf7e1d50c ... is this a known problem? According

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 0x3e7c7e03,

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:07 PM, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why were G1G1 machines shipped with firmware, kernel, and reflash locks enabled? (see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_keys ) Theft is not a good reason, as they do not require activation leases. It only seems to be a bother

sugar on olpc3-16

2008-06-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, for those people who need to work on something closer than f7 to what will ship in august (performance, xulrunner, X, etc), Blaketh gave this tip on #sugar: Blaketh unmadindu, you can also copy the olpc-blah from /etc/pam.d/ on a working f7 laptop to the f9 laptop, then olpc-dm will work.

Project hosting application: Bundlemaker

2008-06-03 Thread Mel Chua
1. Project name : Bundlemaker 2. Existing website, if any : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bundlemaker 3. One-line description : A shell script that takes an index page on the web and pulls it, and all the pages it references, into a .xol library bundle. 4. Longer description

Activities bundle

2008-06-03 Thread Marcus Leech
I can't remember where the .rpm is for all the activities for late-model (recent joyride), since the joyride images no longer seem to contain any activities. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03.06.2008, at 18:33, ffm wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:29 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Machines sent out via our developer program are always shipped out unsecured. Yet I've just recived two

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

2008-06-03 Thread Michail Bletsas
Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 12:09:11 PM: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:30 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:20:51 AM: A necessary rectification: Firmware updates from the driver are the only method that works

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

2008-06-03 Thread Michail Bletsas
Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:26:21 AM: It is not a matter of Python vs C. The userspace tool is extremely awkward to use (since it requires the driver modules to be unloaded which in turn makes the identification of How does it make the ID more difficult?

Re: Project hosting application: Bundlemaker

2008-06-03 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
Cool! I would call this bookbinder if it were an activity. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes

2008-06-03 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Greg, Wad, The people I'm working with apparently are familiar with Moodle rather than Drupal, so that might be the way to go for methem in that sense (funny, Aymara has a different form for the us me-and-them, different from me-and-y'all, would be handy in this sentence), though I am very

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:49 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 01:20:11 PM: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:03 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:26:21 AM: It is not a matter of

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:03 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:26:21 AM: It is not a matter of Python vs C. The userspace tool is extremely awkward to use (since it requires the driver modules to be unloaded which in turn makes

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

2008-06-03 Thread Michail Bletsas
Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 01:20:11 PM: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:03 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:26:21 AM: It is not a matter of Python vs C. The userspace tool is extremely awkward to use (since

UL warning fun.

2008-06-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Mitch and my joint work seems to be making the rounds again, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to quickly repost the relevant URL: http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/ul_warning.png also: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Replacing_the_shutdown_screen Enjoy! --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ )

Re: Software Status Meeting Tomorrow @ 1600 EDT, 2000 UTC in #olpc-meeting on freenode

2008-06-03 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Langhoff, our esteemed school-server architect asked us if we could wake him up at 6:00 AM (in NZ) instead of 4:00 (AM). Can we oblige? Please note the new times: 4:00 PM EST, 2000 UTC. I expect that we'll

Re: UL warning fun.

2008-06-03 Thread Rodolfo Pilas
C. Scott Ananian escribió: Mitch and my joint work seems to be making the rounds again, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to quickly repost the relevant URL: http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/ul_warning.png I would like to suggest Spanish text arrangements: * Niños hacen caca - OK *

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_boot2 echo firmware_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_fw So by this point the driver has already sent

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:09 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 12:09:11 PM: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:30 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:20:51 AM: A necessary rectification:

Re: UL warning fun.

2008-06-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I think perhaps I should clarify that: a) the image is a joke, designed to be amusing b) NOT intended for actual use on a deployed XO c) the Spanish translations are in fact not literal translations d) the Spanish, like the English, is not intended to be actually helpful. Or safe. There are

Re: [Fwd: Re: #7116 NORM Never A: Possible European G1G1 program needs appropriate keyboards]

2008-06-03 Thread Kim Quirk
Agreed, Ed. The legalities of each country need to be determined and met before we can include that country in a Give One Get One program. Some of the things we need to understand are: Certifications, language/keyboard requirements, messaging, non-profit status, shipping, customs, support and

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

2008-06-03 Thread Michail Bletsas
Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 01:50:59 PM: That's a good suggestion. From a practical perspective though, in XOs, the onboard interface is always eth0 these days. Yes, but I thought the discussion was more about active antenna updates, where you may have more

Re: [Localization] [Fwd: Re: #7116 NORM Never A: Possible European G1G1 program needs appropriate keyboards]

2008-06-03 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:39 AM, LASKE, Lionel (C2S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Edward, Hi Kim, Many thanks for your answer. setxkbmap fr Okay, I will try it. Of course, I need to stick some little stamps on each key :-) I don't know sources in Europe, but one of the best in the US for

XO communications interface naming

2008-06-03 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
From a practical perspective though, in XOs, the onboard interface is always eth0 these days. I don't have wireless - am using an USB-ethernet adapter instead. Once upon a time, my G1G1 XO would set up its wired interface on 'eth0'. I normally run Joyride, and in the last couple of months

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

2008-06-03 Thread Richard A. Smith
Dan Williams wrote: that wasn't intended for my part. I'm happy to test this out and try to get the userspace tool working again if given: 1) one or more active antenna modules to potentially brick If you have a unit that you brick we can program a new chip and swap it at 1cc. Assuming

Re: [OLPC Security] Bitfrost and dual-boot

2008-06-03 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 30.05.2008 08:34, Albert Cahalan wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I think

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,

New joyride build 2009

2008-06-03 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2009 Changes in build 2009 from build: 2005 Size delta: 0.00M -squeak-vm 3.10-3olpc2 +squeak-vm 3.10-3olpc3 --- Changes for squeak-vm 3.10-3olpc3 from 3.10-3olpc2 --- + fix running under compositing WM -- This mail was

Project Hosting Application: olpc-netscripts

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Stone
1. Project name : olpc-netutils 2. Existing website, if any : None 3. One-line description : OLPC-specific user-land network software. 4. Longer description : Yani's collection of network status displays. 5. URLs of similar projects : Unknown. 6. Committer list Please

New faster build 2009

2008-06-03 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build2009 Changes in build 2009 from build: 2005 Size delta: 0.00M -squeak-vm 3.10-3olpc2 +squeak-vm 3.10-3olpc3 --- Changes for squeak-vm 3.10-3olpc3 from 3.10-3olpc2 --- + fix running under compositing WM -- This mail was

Project:olpc-netutils has been set up

2008-06-03 Thread Henry Hardy
Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:01:58 -0400, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : olpc-netutils Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/projects/olpc-netutils Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:53 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:28 AM, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C. Scott Ananian-3 wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#USB_upgrade This will not work if the OS is not bootable and no alt-os image is on the disk. We should

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread Kim Quirk
John, We experienced quite a large number of 'software broken' laptops when we first starting shipping both in Uruguay and in the G1G1 program. I thought one of the things Ivan did in Uruguay was to help them reflash their laptops when they couldn't boot due to journal corruption or other software

G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-03 Thread ffm
Why were G1G1 machines shipped with firmware, kernel, and reflash locks enabled? (see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_keys ) Theft is not a good reason, as they do not require activation leases. It only seems to be a bother for people who want to help out with the OLPC project. -FFM

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-03 Thread ffm
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:29 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Machines sent out via our developer program are always shipped out unsecured. Yet I've just recived two laptops via said program that had security enabled. -FFM ___ Devel

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, That said, there's a separate bug in trac about X not starting when the NAND flash is full. I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to as not booting or not, but we should fix that, too. Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125. What do people think of the straw man

Re: JFFS2 error messages

2008-06-03 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 05:16:17PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: 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)

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread pgf
chris wrote: Hi, That said, there's a separate bug in trac about X not starting when the NAND flash is full. I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to as not booting or not, but we should fix that, too. Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125. What

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread Robert Myers
Chris, That said, there's a separate bug in trac about X not starting when the NAND flash is full. I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to as not booting or not, but we should fix that, too. Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125. What do people think of the

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread david
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Robert Myers wrote: Chris, That said, there's a separate bug in trac about X not starting when the NAND flash is full. I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to as not booting or not, but we should fix that, too. Specifically,

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread ffm
C. Scott Ananian-3 wrote: We should continue to try very hard not to let the OS become unbootable. If it is unbootable, something Very Wrong should have occurred and there's no guarantee that mount the filesystem and copy off /home will work either. Using a dev key and a rescue disk is

Help packaging some OLPC network status scripts?

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Stone
Friends, Yani Galanis has pieced together a variety of source code and dependencies at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7171 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7172 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7174 archived in http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-netutils which I'd really like to be able

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

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:08 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: 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

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

2008-06-03 Thread Brian Cavagnolo
Hello, On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct in assuming that the runtime firmware implements _all_ the same boot commands that the boot2 firmware does, including UPDATE_BOOT2 (flash new boot2 to EEPROM), FW_BY_USB (execute uploaded firmware but do

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-03 Thread Kim Quirk
Developer program laptops are shipped out as US/International keyboards, English language, AK flag set, which means they do NOT need activation. They are permanently activated in the manufacturing data. The only thing they need to be a developer unit is a developer key. One more reason to add to

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread John Gilmore
Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125. What do people think of the straw man in that ticket? Should we implement it? My comments are in the ticket; let's move the discussion there, where it belongs. John ___ Devel mailing

Re: Project Hosting Application: olpc-netscripts

2008-06-03 Thread Ixo X oxI
Great idea! I have some scripts, thoughts, and code I might be interested with contributing myself. Is there a start to a list of tools, what they do, and maybe even a 'request/want' list ? :) -iXo On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-03 Thread Samuel Klein
I continue to be uncomfortable that we are sending out restricted / locked-down machines without a clear need. The arguments made so far for this are 1. Getting G1G1 people to test security steps 2. Protecting G1G1 donors from installing anything but signed builds 3. Showing a pretty boot

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:56 AM, Kim Quirk wrote: thought one of the things Ivan did in Uruguay was to help them reflash their laptops when they couldn't boot due to journal corruption I gave them a patch that they were able to push out to the machines to restore them to working order _without_

Re: Project Hosting Application: olpc-netscripts

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:54:13PM -0700, Ixo X oxI wrote: Great idea! I have some scripts, thoughts, and code I might be interested with contributing myself. Then please show off your patches! Is there a start to a list of tools, what they do, and maybe even a 'request/want' list ?

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Stone
Shipping G1G1 machines with NAND reflash locks enabled makes little sense to me. What good is protection against malicious reflash when any attacker who can perform a reflash has physical access to the device and has password-free root access in default configurations? Instead, the justification

Re: [Server-devel] Debian help needed

2008-06-03 Thread John Watlington
Thanks for the offers, but after more discussion with the Uruguay team, their network architecture is different enough from that on the XS (all their schools are a single DNS domain!) that the Identity Server would not work. They will be developing a simple solution that provides the

Re: [Server-devel] uruguay server hardware

2008-06-03 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi John et all, i've wikified this into http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Scenario_taxonomyaction=editsection=5 maybe there is some better place in the wiki to do so. Greg do you agree?. Can we organize this page better?, i'm thinking we should put the specific hardware of all countries

Re: [Server-devel] uruguay server hardware

2008-06-03 Thread John Watlington
It should go in the server documentation, not networking scenario taxonomies. They do not expect that the winner of the next tender will be IBM with the same machines. wad On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: Hi John et all, i've wikified this into

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the sanity check, that's not it :-( Well, I think it is pretty close :-) What you described is roughly what I had read a few weeks (months?) ago. So I described an additional step - an xo activity to blog, that you