Re: [IAEP] Some Questions About Setting Up A School Server

2009-10-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Jim needs help setting up a school server. For starters, I referred him to: He has the following questions. what's missing at least in part is network topology and possibilities, especially on the LAN side of the xs.

wlan interface (was: first play with new XO 1.5 machines)

2009-10-23 Thread Albert Cahalan
Daniel Drake writes: Another laptop C comes along A C -- B This laptop can see both of these independent laptops (each having its independent network). It can join one or the other. It cannot join both. Hence this XO can only communicate with A or B, but not both (even

the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Helped a friend install os8 on his XO-1. When we got done, he decided to enter the command 'yum install gparted'. Yum failed with a not enough memory error. I happened to have an SD card with me that had a swap partition defined on it. The XO's SD slot was already in use, so I attached an

Re: the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread Tiago Marques
It seems you got lucky, the most common behavior is for it to crash. I've been an advocate of SWAP for the XO since I got one, even things like browsing become many times faster. It becomes even more important on the XO OS because it seems to take up anywhere from 30-80MiB more than a similar

Re: the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 15:10, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: It seems you got lucky, the most common behavior is for it to crash. I've been an advocate of SWAP for the XO since I got one, even things like browsing become many times faster. It becomes even more important on the XO OS

Re: the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:28:08PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 15:10, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: It seems you got lucky, the most common behavior is for it to crash. I've been an advocate of SWAP for the XO since I got one, even things like browsing

Re: Test firmware

2009-10-23 Thread Steven M. Parrish
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero dir...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~wmb/q3a13c.rom This is a brown bag release whose main purpose is to test the effectiveness of Richard's

NOW: Contributors Program Mtg! (Fri 2PM Boston time, #olpc-meeting)

2009-10-23 Thread Holt
Sorry for the late start! Please join us NOW reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: (2PM EDT Boston Time Today/Friday) http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * New projects libraries -- teaching them Community

Re: wlan interface (was: first play with new XO 1.5 machines)

2009-10-23 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 04:54:31PM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: C can either talk with A, by finding the beacons, adjusting its own clock to match. (at this point, any frames coming from B will be heard as noise) or it can adjust to B's clock, in order to speak to it (and everyone else who's

Some Questions About Setting Up A School Server

2009-10-23 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... These questions are from Jim Stockford j...@well.com who is working with Shameer on a Contributors Program project. Please be sure to send me a copy of any answers! Thanks. Caryl _ Jim needs help setting up a school server.

Procedimiento para hacer un NandBlaster

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro
Hola como estas martín he una pregunta el procedimiento de como hacer un nand blaster se me olvido ?? no se porque :-) pero que archivos necesito para prepara una usb ahora con las maquinas del mined que ya tienen firma Nicaragua y estan activadas estas están con el software de sugar 767 y ellos

Early F11 XS build

2009-10-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
In between various complications, I have been working on getting an initial rebase of the XS packages and build infra to F11. After much wrangling with revisor, comps and image-creator, I have an initial installer iso and an image that boots on the XO-1. The XO image tests reasonably well, I

Re: wlan interface (was: first play with new XO 1.5 machines)

2009-10-23 Thread Andrés Ambrois
On Friday 23 October 2009 09:09:31 am Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/10/23 Albert Cahalan acaha...@gmail.com: Thus, properly done, the XO labled C might have either of: a. wlan0 to reach A, and wlan1 to reach B (same hardware) b. wlan0, from which wlan0_0 and wlan0_1 are instantiated It

Re: Test firmware

2009-10-23 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Today i had the same problem even with q3a13c, after having to reboot because the xo blocked while trying to rotate the screen, before the ''rotate incident'' all was ok on the keyboard freezing front. cheers! Rafael Ortiz On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Steven M. Parrish

Re: the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread John Gilmore
I happened to have an SD card with me that had a swap partition defined on it. The XO's SD slot was already in use, so I attached an USB card reader (with my card in it), and issued the appropriate 'swapon /dev/...' command. I'd suggest a small enhancement: that when a removable medium

Re: Test firmware

2009-10-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
Today i had the same problem even with q3a13c, after having to reboot because the xo blocked while trying to rotate the screen, before the ''rotate incident'' all was ok on the keyboard freezing front. Is it repeatable? -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Test firmware

2009-10-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
When this happens to me I unplug it, remove the battery then hold the power button about 10secs. Put the battery back in and all is good The button press is unnecessary. The EC reads the power button and with no battery and no power you got no EC. Even if you did have some brief amount of

Re: Test firmware

2009-10-23 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Rafael Ortiz 2009/10/23 Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org: Today i had the same problem even with q3a13c, after having to reboot because the xo blocked while trying to rotate the screen, before the ''rotate incident'' all was ok on the keyboard freezing front. Is it repeatable? No, in

[Server-devel] minor xs-activation-httphandler bug

2009-10-23 Thread Daniel Drake
xs-activation-httphandler.py does: lease = myoat.get_lease(sn, 300) if lease is not None: myoat.mark_served_lease(sn) resp[lease] = lease However, get_lease doesn't look like it will ever return None. Instead, it returns False if there is no lease. So we

Re: [Server-devel] Nepal XS customizations

2009-10-23 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/23 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com:  - a script to simplify eth0 configuration How does that work? http://hg.olenepal.org/NEXS_scripts/file/tip/netsetup.sh Notes on self test:  - 32 tests performed, to check that: hostname has been set, both ethernet interfaces present,

[Server-devel] PolicyKit dependency chain for headless machines

2009-10-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
Working on the OLPC XS rebase to F11 -- I end up with random bits of gnome and kde, brought in by PolicyKit, which wants a PolicyKit-authentication-agent. Yum only seems to know of KDE and Gnome authentication-agents. How does PK handle users logging in in a VT? What is the authentication agent

[Server-devel] Early F11 XS build

2009-10-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
In between various complications, I have been working on getting an initial rebase of the XS packages and build infra to F11. After much wrangling with revisor, comps and image-creator, I have an initial installer iso and an image that boots on the XO-1. The XO image tests reasonably well, I