On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 01:38 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 10:08 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > Yes. The active antennas firmware would need to be slightly altered to > > start on firmware boot, but the normal XO firmware should certainly be > > radio-off-until-driver-enabled (by setting IFF_UP or device open). > > Let us make a clear distinction between the two types of 'active > antenna' here. The ones which are actually attached to servers and > acting as wireless devices for a computer, we want to act like in the > XO. When they come up automatically into mesh repeater mode, that's > actually a complete PITA -- and it means we can't reboot the servers > because then the driver can't initialise the wireless because it's in > mesh repeater mode and doesn't respond properly to being reset.
So wait, what's going on here? I thought the devices attached to school servers were just run-of-the-mill USB 8388 devices like the 8388 daughterboard of the XO, but different connector, right? What is the post-boot firmware flash functionality supposed to apply to, the host-less active antenna? (which is what I heretofore had understood). Dan > Only for the standalone devices which we're going to hang in a corridor > and feed 5v do we want _any_ kind of automatic network operation. And > then it needs to be configurable -- we have to set the channel. > > Since we need a way to configure the channel on the active antennae, > let's use channel zero to indicate 'no automatic mesh'. And please can > we have that firmware by tomorrow, Ulan Bator time -- so that I can > actually set up the school server so that it's rebootable without > subsequently having to disconnect and reconnect the firmware? > > I'd do it myself, but bug #429 bites again... > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
