Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-09-13 Thread John Watlington
On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:55 AM, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 05:43:28PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: So... the RTC battery probably went dead? Will charging the machines for several hours also recharge it? I had them on charge overnight the other day so maybe that took care of

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-09-13 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 02:03:45AM -0400, John Watlington wrote: On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:55 AM, James Cameron wrote: I searched for ntp-set-clock using Google: site:wiki.laptop.org ntp-set-clock I learn some new function of OFW every week! It looks like that function requires the

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Translations for the rest of us: DHCP: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DHCP.html OFW: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/OFW (pick one out of 12!) NTP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol ESSID: http://www.cryer.co.uk/glossary/e/essid.htm RTC: Real Time Clock

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Again, The OLPC wiki didn't come up on my google search for OFW. At least, not on the first page. Is there a glossary on our wiki that links to pages with definitions? If there isn't, there should be. A lot of folks don't know the jargon yet! Caryl Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:28:36

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-08-31 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Thanks James, Tabitha, and all... I already sent the instructions using the Open Firmware instructions. I rewrote it so it is very easy to follow and suggested they may even want to have some of their middle school students help with this. I had originally figured that Terminal would be the

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-08-31 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 05:43:28PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: So... the RTC battery probably went dead? Will charging the machines for several hours also recharge it? I had them on charge overnight the other day so maybe that took care of if. No. The charging only happens when the laptop is

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-08-30 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Tabitha was right! There is something funny happening with the date/time settings on the 10 XO-1s I am transferring to another project. Last night I reflashed all 10 of the machines to 11.2.0 (os874). This morning I met with the two teachers, who will be using the machines most, to