On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > Sure! I have a Fujitsu P2120 (Transmeta Crusoe ~900MHz proc, 384MB > RAM) that I've been using for testing. We use it at all the OLPC-SF > meetings. XS 0.4 works fine on it "right out of the box", but no such > love with 0.5, hence the concern. I've been following your thread on > the built-in wireless card confusion and it looks like I may have the > same issue.
Is that the only issue? What does the output of iwconfig look like? Do you have an AA? In other words, bugreports and/or reports to this list can give me enough hints to fix it. I depend on you reporting it... > We can always dig up a relatively modern P4 for testing. What > additional hw would this be? The machine you have is low end, but it should do for small groups - no need for a P4. Was thinking of an AA and/or an XO if you don't have them. Depends on what you're testing. > Don't get me wrong. I really appreciate your efforts. On my recent > trip to India (http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/593), I realized the > immense importance of the school server in environs with no Internet > backhaul. Khairat, India's first pilot, has a server, but its an old > build (160 or 161, I think) and they recently lost their backhaul, so > they don't use it anymore. The teacher asked for a lot of things that > could be fixed easily with the current XS feature set. Interesting to hear that. Do you think you could write up a brief summary of the things that teacher asked for...? (the slides linked, while interesting, don't seem to refer to this...) > In other > schools where they might consider getting XOs, the immense cost of > backhaul will kill the effort before it gets off the ground. The XS > fills that gap. This reminds me: We should explore sneakernet-like > e-mail at some point, but I digress. Have you got an XO? I really need someone to help me experiment with booting F9 off an SD card (backporting whatever cleverness has been applied to F10) so we can put XS-0.6 on SD cards and say: XO + SD card + external USB HD = XS! (I don't think the XO will boot from an ext USB HD...) > The offline nature of content and software (wikislice, moodle, etc.) > is going to be instrumental in getting XOs to poorer school districts > that cannot afford backhaul connectivity.. In fact, I think the role > of the school server is undersold and overshadowed by the XO's > capabilities and eye candy. Of course I agree, the XS is the sexiest part of OLPC, and we're the only ones that have noticed ;-) Is it feasible to make Wikislices with cjb's toolchain for the various languages in India? > I'm just concerned that folks like Manoocher > (http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/grassroots/2008-December/000953.html) > might get misled by the "stable" monkier only to find out that the 0.5 > ISO has issues. Reasonable point. It does say stable, and it also says "0.5" ;-) And we can also say that 0.4 is not very "stable" either -- I know quite a few scenarios where it has significantly more trouble than 0.5. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list server-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
