Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

2015-03-16 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:30:30PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On March 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: There's no need to go as far as configuring as an access point when ad-hoc networking will work, with suitable configuration of the other laptops connecting to

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

2015-03-16 Thread Sebastian Silva
Back then, I was dogfooding Sugar 0.94 because I had to deploy it to the children of Peru. Also, you can image, I had various XOs around. In my vision, Sugar should grow to be a useful desktop for a person of any age who likes to learn with simplicity, collaboration and reflection. If it's not

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

2015-03-16 Thread Adam Holt
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:36 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:30:30PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On March 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: There's no need to go as far as configuring as an access point when ad-hoc networking

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

2015-03-16 Thread Sebastian Silva
El 16/03/15 a las 22:31, James Cameron escibiĆ³: Why would Google and the carriers want to have people bypass them? It makes no business sense. ;-) Oh very timely with news about this beauty here: https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel It's a tunnel for Internet traffic thru

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

2015-03-16 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
If I recall correctly, Android devices cannot connect to Ad-hoc networks out-of-the-box. There may be some third party utilities which allow certain devices to do this with varying levels of success. Instead, either one device is configured as an AP, or a newer-than-Adhoc standard called WiFi