LESOTHO LAN NETWORK SET-UP, INTERNET ACCESS
This is a very timely thread for me. Next month, I will be trying to set
up a similar LAN system at a remote school in the mountains of Lesotho,
Africa, where we have a Windows XP desktop computer and 90 XO-1 laptops.
We have a wireless router for the
I'm trying to download the XS 0.6 software but I get an ERROR: NOT FOUND.
No handler matched request to /xs/OLPC_XS_LATEST.iso
I used the link:
from- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software
to- http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/OLPC_XS_LATEST.iso
I tried the XS 0.5 and 0.4 links with
I work with a non-OLPC-affiliated XO laptop project in Lesotho. Our
project uses G1G1 XO-1 laptops we buy on the open market and refurbish
ourselves.
Like David Leeming in PNG (see Server-devel Digest, Vol 60, Issue 13,
Topic 1 -- Re: Looking for new low power server hardware candidate), I
work
Hi David,
Sorry for my delayed reply. Thanks for your comments and advice. Please
do send me the specs for the EPC-AT270 you are using.
I tried downloading the XS operating system from the OLPC website onto a
dongle/flash drive and installing it from that onto the PC we have
designated as our
Hi David, The document you sent looks extremely helpful. Thanks so much!
Janissa
From: David Leeming
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 3:19 AM
To: jbalc...@laptopstolesotho.org
Cc: 'XS Devel'
Subject: RE: [Server-devel] Lesotho project network server: obstacles needs
Hi Janissa
I am copying you
We got around the need for antitheft measures with a community-based
approach. This may not work in all communities, but it has worked very
well for us.
BEFORE distributing any computers for student use, we held meetings with
all participants, including teachers, students, parents, and the
I plan to attend the OLPC conference in San Francisco in October. I will
be available there to anyone who wishes to discuss our Laptops to Lesotho
model in more detail.
You can see the Rules Regulations, Contracts, and Fine Schedules written
in December 2010 for Nohana Primary School on our
p.s. One anti-theft thing that I forgot to mention in my previous list
serve response was that we label and ENGRAVE all the laptops with big bold
numbers and codes in various locations on the laptops so anyone can tell
exactly who they belong to. ItÂ’s pretty obvious they are from a school or
