Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-10 Thread James Cameron
Attached please find a program that can be run from the Terminal activity or the text console to display signal level, noise level and link quality at ten updates per second. It is useful for performing simple measurements of RF coverage on an XO associated with an access point. The levels are ex

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Martin Langhoff : > In the _completely hypothetical_ case that I had some time and chance > to spin a 8.2.x release aimed at fixing the "paper cuts"[1] and > low-risk bugs that hinder XO-1 deployability _today_ in the field - > have *you* got any candidates? Tell me about them :-) I thin

pippy on F11

2009-08-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The webpage for Pippy says it ought to work with Sugar 0.82-0.86. Many of the "Examples" in Pippy include the line 'import pippy'. Ran Pippy-35.xo on build os5. As has been my experience with many F11 builds, when I tried to run any Pippy-provided example which included that coding line, what I

New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-10 Thread Steven M. Parrish
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/xo-1/builds/ Added Typing Turtle & Words activities, added to favorites as well. Added ntp, ntpdate to base OS. Create custom .asoundrc file for TamTam here are the file differences since os4 -atlas-sse-3.8.3-4.fc11.i586 +

New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-10 Thread Steven M. Parrish
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/xo-1/builds/ Added Typing Turtle & Words activities, added to favorites as well. Added ntp, ntpdate to base OS. Create custom .asoundrc file for TamTam here are the file differences since os4 -atlas-sse-3.8.3-4.fc11.i586 +

Re: Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> chance ... a 8.2.x release aimed at fixing the "paper cuts"[1] and > low-risk bugs that hinder XO-1 deployability _today_ in the field - > have *you* got any candidates? Tell me about them :-) I myself don't really "patch" -- mostly all I do is to add things to make the XO more "usable" (as a L

Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
In the _completely hypothetical_ case that I had some time and chance to spin a 8.2.x release aimed at fixing the "paper cuts"[1] and low-risk bugs that hinder XO-1 deployability _today_ in the field - have *you* got any candidates? Tell me about them :-) I am specially hoping to round up bugs tha

Re: Good intro boot to Linux management... ?

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/10 Martin Langhoff : > This is somewhat offtopic but important when we get to work with > deployments. (And working with deployment teams is how we get laptops > in the hands of kids, so it is right there where it matters...) > > Some local teams have very low exposure to Linux -- this is re

Good intro boot to Linux management... ?

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
This is somewhat offtopic but important when we get to work with deployments. (And working with deployment teams is how we get laptops in the hands of kids, so it is right there where it matters...) Some local teams have very low exposure to Linux -- this is regional, and has a multitude of reason

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: F11 testing for XS

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/10 Martin Langhoff : > Over the last could of weeks Jerry's been exploring the F11 rebase. Here are > his notes. Thanks. I agree that the Python stuff will be fixed with a rebuild (perhaps with some trivial spec file tweaks) and ejabberd should be too. olpc-contents and bitfrost are now sta

HostAP on XO's Libertas

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_as_AP Has anyone been playing with this? How well does it work? Throughput? Number of connected nodes? Does it run stable for extended periods of time? What kernel and hostap revs did you use? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO wireless interface problem when AP down

2009-08-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Andres, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 15:50, Andrés Nacelle wrote: > Hello, I´ve been working recently with something like 70 XO and during the > tests where I had 2 Access Point working, it happened that the electric > supply from one of this failed without me realising. So I keep trying to > associ