Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Is that because the wlan card does not support hostap (I haven't verified this)? Correct. We have experimental kernel patches + firmware for this but they are very *very* green. What if the card simply ran in ad-hoc mode? It

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-27 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Ay ay ay! This last 12 months have been frantic, as I've ended up biting off a ton more than common sense would recommend to chew. And then chewing, slowly, awkwardly. Good things have come out of the hard work

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Sorry about the delayed response (school is back in session), but can I assume that XS 0.7 will run on a XO 1.5? Definitely on the wishlist, but not a given. Even if it does, one of the desired features is very unlikely to

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-27 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Sorry about the delayed response (school is back in session), but can I assume that XS 0.7 will run on a XO 1.5? Definitely on the wishlist,

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-19 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Anaconda will not automatically find the old install if its older than release-2, you will need to pass upgradeany at the boot prompt if you go

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what would you highlight? What have people asked for (that wasn't easy/trivial/possible)? What problems have we heard that were hard to

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:12 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: The Fedora 13 ARM port is intended to be a complete a port as possible and should have the bits required as a base for the XS. Excellent news! I hope you keep the Fedora RPMs as RHEL6/CentOS6 do not support ARM.

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 14:29 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: Ay ay ay! This last 12 months have been frantic, as I've ended up biting off a ton more than common sense would recommend to chew. And then chewing, slowly, awkwardly. Good things have come out of the hard work of this year, but the

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On 18 January 2011 19:29, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what would you highlight? What have people asked for (that wasn't easy/trivial/possible)? What problems have we heard that were hard to diagnose...? Some

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread David Leeming
Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2011 7:28 a.m. To: Martin Langhoff Cc: XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please... On 18 January 2011 19:29, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what would you

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Anna
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: I have never tried selecting the Gnome option, but a nice GUI would be useful for users with limited grasp of command line stuff for file management. Maybe that is available already David Leeming Solomon

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread David Leeming
OK point taken! We have used WinSCP on networked Windows PCs too, for this purpose. David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link From: Anna [mailto:ascho...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2011 10:11 a.m. To: David Leeming Cc: XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Anna
Reporting mechanisms would be useful, such as: Squid reporting for the locations with internet access. I've played around with sarg for ad-hoc reports, which really came in handy when I got claims that the internet doesn't work. Not only is it up, but here's what folks are looking at. On an

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 20:28 +, Daniel Drake wrote: On 18 January 2011 19:29, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what would you highlight? What have people asked for (that wasn't easy/trivial/possible)? What

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread David Leeming
Even if a location doesn't have internet access, daily reporting of the number of unique XOs that got IP addresses would probably be informative. At least you'd have a quick way to see how many XOs are being brought to school and be able to track that over time. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
Martin, I was about to email you regarding what is the latest XS version as I am about to get back to attempting to port the XS to ARM so your email is timely to me. I had put that on hold for quite a while as it turned out Fedora ARM 11/12 lacked a number of items required by the XS. The

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Anna
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:12 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.comwrote: In closing I would like to say, I do not think most administrators would care about RHEL6 or CentOS. In fact they may prefer the modern up to date Fedora 14 features. Thanks rihowa...@gmail.com Seconded.