Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-02-06 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Why didn't Software update install the newer Browse (v.101 ?) that according to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.1#Bug_fixes addresses ticket #9112 Enable Browse to embed PDF files in itself Because it is a bit of a hack, aimed at deployments only. I don't think it will be

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-02-06 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/6 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: I see. Something which is a SUBSTANTIAL improvement (being able to view .pdf files without fetching them to Journal and separately launching Read) will be available only to deployments which explicitly ask for it - and not to general 8.2.1 users. It's

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/31 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net: Probably best to upload somewhere and put a link here. http://www.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/tmp/messages.11 It also contains the info from when I poked my icon and it worked. That starts at 08:49. I inserted a few blank lines at that point to

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/30 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net: It created a new version of /home/olpc/.sugar/default/nm/networks.cfg which differs from the old one only in time stamps and in having the bssids field filled in. Sounds like a pretty critical difference. I would recommend not using wpa.sh, or at

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-31 Thread Hal Murray
OK. Next thing for you to try. Delete networks.cfg again, per Martin's instructions. Reboot, note that your AP has a padlock. Enter password until connected successfully. That's the state I'm currently in. networks.cfg was generated by typing in a password.

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/31 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net: /var/log/messages is 63K. 644 lines, 328 from NetworkManager. Should I send it as email or put it someplace or ??? Probably best to upload somewhere and put a link here. Bear in mind that it is lost every reboot, so if you did not already take a

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-31 Thread Hal Murray
Probably best to upload somewhere and put a link here. http://www.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/tmp/messages.11 It also contains the info from when I poked my icon and it worked. That starts at 08:49. I inserted a few blank lines at that point to separate it from the booting stuff. -- These

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Hal, I'm having trouble comprehending your mail 2009/1/30 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net: [Context is WAP connection not getting set via NetworkManager] I expected this to get fixed in build 24. I grabbed build 25 since that announcement came by before I started pulling things over.

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-30 Thread Hal Murray
I'm having trouble comprehending your mail Sorry if I wasn't clear. (If it was simple we wouldn't be having this discussion.) [I'm running with a B3 board in a B2 chassis, so there is a slight chance that this is confusing things. I doubt it, but standard disclaimer...] With old software,

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/30 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net: What is 1352? joyride-1352? Ticket 1352? Sorry, I didn't keep good notes. The real filename was very long so I renamed it to something reasonable, or at least it seemed reasonable at the time. It's joyride or whatever rather than a ticket. I

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-30 Thread Hal Murray
I still don't understand which version you are comparing to. Can't you just go to the control panel and check? That only gets me the currently installed version. It takes a while to switch back to older versions. Let me try again. I'm using WPA, version 2 on a Linksys WRT54GL running

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: OLPC Build staging-9 (devel_jffs2) Looks like I should have called it build 9. Sorry for the confusion. I've never seen that connect automatically. Most of the time, it worked when I poke the icon. dsd is

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-30 Thread Hal Murray
Try _deleting_ that file (with nm not running, as it'll recreate it), rebooting, connecting for the first time -- a dialog window will come up asking for the wpa passkey, provide it, and _then_ see if future reboots reconnect (after waiting, as dsd suggests). I deleted the file and pulled

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-29 Thread Hal Murray
[Context is WAP connection not getting set via NetworkManager] I expected this to get fixed in build 24. I grabbed build 25 since that announcement came by before I started pulling things over. I expected it to fix the startup problem (#9222), but it doesn't seem to be working for me. I've

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-28 Thread John Ferlito
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:26:45AM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I had a similar problem. I'm on a WEP network which worked fine on 8.2.0, but we simply can't connect on 8.2.1. The AP is a Billion brand. I can see the network, and am prompted for the password, but no joy! I've also