Re: [PATCH] Add libertas_disablemesh module parameter to disable mesh interface

2011-05-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 15:16 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Dan Williams's message of Thu May 12 05:11:36 +0200 2011: > > On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 14:52 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > > > This allows individual users and deployments to disable mesh support at > > > runtime, i.e. without havin

Re: [PATCH] Add libertas_disablemesh module parameter to disable mesh interface

2011-05-11 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 14:52 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > This allows individual users and deployments to disable mesh support at > runtime, i.e. without having to build and maintain a custom kernel. Does the mesh interface somehow cause problems, even when nothing is using it? I'd expect that if

Re: NetworkManager time sync

2010-07-12 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 08:41 -0300, Esteban Bordon wrote: > You have to put a script calling ntpdate > in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ You can also get the NTP server that may be passed down from DHCP in the environment of the script on 'up' events. See 'man NetworkManager'. That's of course

Re: [PATCH] Fix ethtool reporting no WOL options supported if WOL is not already active

2010-05-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 10:03 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > This patch fixes the libertas driver incorrectly reporting that Wake-on-LAN > is not supported if Wake-on-LAN is currently disabled. Looks good to me; could you repost to linux-wirel...@vger so I can ack it and Linville will pick it up? Dan

Re: [OLPC/Paraguay] Debugging NetworkManager-0.7.2.995 + Power Management

2010-04-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 17:34 -0300, mabente wrote: > Very sorry for the late response, here is the messages log and gdb > backtrace log! > > Hopefully it will be helpful :) Yes, quite. Please try: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/NetworkManager-0.7.2.996-1.fc11,NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.2.9

Re: [OLPC/Paraguay] Debugging NetworkManager-0.7.2.995 + Power Management

2010-03-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 14:07 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 09:16 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > Yeah, I haven't been able to reproduce that, but I only have an XO1.5 > > with me (which doesn't have mesh), and I think the issue is timing > >

Re: NetworkManager from fedora-updates-testing broken on F11-XO1

2010-02-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 21:38 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:11 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > Feb 25 17:01:30 xo-37-38-0f NetworkManager: *** START > > ** > > Feb 25 17:01:30 xo-37-38-0f NetworkManager: Frame 0: > > Net

Re: NetworkManager from fedora-updates-testing broken on F11-XO1

2010-02-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 22:44 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 11:08 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 10:20 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 16:15 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > Not a known issue

Re: NetworkManager from fedora-updates-testing broken on F11-XO1

2010-02-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 10:20 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 16:15 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > Not a known issue; but I'll try to reproduce on mine. Unless Daniel > > gets there first of course. > > I retrieved the log: I was able to reprodu

Re: NetworkManager from fedora-updates-testing broken on F11-XO1

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 20:17 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > We didn't collect the logs in the field, but in /var/log/messages we > found an assertion failure from NM which was more or less like "driver ! > = NULL", just after logging something about the OLPC mesh device. > Wireless wasn't working

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

2009-08-07 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 16:23 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 16:19, Martin Langhoff > wrote: > > Following the "let's make Sugar more deployable" theme that Daniel > > started a while ago, I am looking at something that Reuben mentioned > > last week he discovered in the field.

Re: Setting up the mesh device

2008-06-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 02:34 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 06:09:58PM -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > > Sjoerd Simons wrote: > >> I'm setting the ESSID on the msh0 interface indeed. But i never get an > >> association event on it.. While i even get an association

Re: Setting up the mesh device

2008-06-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 18:09 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > I'm setting the ESSID on the msh0 interface indeed. But i never get an > > association event on it.. While i even get an association event on eth0 when > > it's not up (but with msh0 being up obviously)

Re: Setting up the mesh device

2008-06-24 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 19:42 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working on adding support for the olpc mesh device to NM 0.7. I feel sorry for you :) In some ways 0.7 has made it a lot better for you (concurrent device support) and in other ways it's made it a bit harder (more e

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:08 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:28 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > I'm happy to test this out and try to > > get the userspace tool working again if given: > > Last time I knew, the userspace tool _was_ working. >

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: > To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: > > echo > /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_boot2 > echo > /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_fw So by this point the driver has already sent BOOT_CMD_FW_BY_USB and there's alrea

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:09 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/03/2008 12:09:11 PM: > > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:30 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:20:51 > AM: > > >

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:49 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/03/2008 01:20:11 PM: > > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:03 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: > > > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:03 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/03/2008 11:26:21 AM: > > > > > > > > > It is not a matter of Python vs C. > > > The userspace tool is extremely awkward to use (since it requ

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:30 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 11:20:51 AM: > > > > > > > > A necessary rectification: > > > Firmware updates from the driver are the only method that works > > > currently. If we want to name one method a "disaster", we would ha

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:26 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:37 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 10:12:31 AM: > > > > > On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: > > > > To update boot2

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:18 -0400, John Watlington wrote: > On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:08 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:03 -0400, John Watlington wrote: > >> > >> My bad. This is now Trac #7170 > >> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7170 > >> > >> All of the information in this

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:37 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2008 10:12:31 AM: > > > On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: > > > To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware > and: > > > > > > echo > /sys/class/net/eth2

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:34 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: > >> To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: > To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: > > echo > /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_boot2 > echo > /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_fw So why are we doing this with the driver, and not the userspace update tool? Marvel

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 12:05 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 07:01 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > Is the firmware multicast address limit the same for every firmware from > > 5.0.x up to 9? Is it something that people with the firmware dev kit > > can ch

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 20:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On an SMP host, are you sure we can't end up setting the multicast list > > > simultaneously on the two logical devices? > > > > (A: No.) > > Try it like this... completely

Re: [PATCH stable] libertas: Extend CMD_MESH_CONFIG to get and set persistent mesh default params.

2008-05-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 17:51 +0200, Stefanik Gábor wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Johannes Berg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 15:09 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > >> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:01 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: > >> > This patch is based on a patch f

Re: Association test

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 14:58 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > I installed d-feet on an XO. But when I run './d-feet -l' I get: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/d-feet", line 47, in > app = DFeetApp.DFeetApp() > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dfeet/DFeetApp.py

Re: XOs B4 and USB-SVGA adapters

2008-01-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 18:38 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to use a USB-SVGA adapter based on the SiS 35x chips with a XO > Beta4. It seems like even with an external USB hub which is externally > powered, the SVGA adapter does not received enough power, which I find >

Re: free firmware for 88W8388

2008-01-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:03 +0100, Rózsás Gödény wrote: > Hi > > > I hope you can make options to start with any of the 3 > firmwares. > Perhaps I wish to try writing a boot1 or boot2. Um, Boot1 is burned into ROM on the 8388 and you probably can't change that without a

Re: free firmware for 88W8388

2008-01-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 14:40 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Dan Williams writes: > > > No, you can't. One team reverse engineers the hardware and > > creates a specifications document, the second team implements > > (from scratch or from unencumbered FOSS source

Re: Rebuilding the Kernel

2008-01-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 11:24 -0500, Tom Hoffman wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get a USB2VGA adapter working. Step 1 would appear to > be compiling the SISUSBVGA module in the standard kernel tree and > getting it onto my XO. > > So I've been trying http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rebuilding_OLPC_k

Re: free firmware for 88W8388

2008-01-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Citando Rózsás Gödény <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I started to modify qemu to emulate 88W8388. Now it can load the firmware ( > > usb8388.bin) into ram and starts the firmware, albeit it drops an error > > after some time. So it is very

Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

2008-01-21 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 19:05 +, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: > On 1/21/08, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except that it's completely insane to try to diverge from the upstream > > kernel and userland here. > > Uh? You are supposed to costumiz

Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

2008-01-21 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 18:30 +, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: > On 1/21/08, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It may be open, but it isn't much of a standard. > > I've only found one implementation, csound itself. > > There are no hardware implementations. > > See, just because a sta

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:05 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: > > > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/19/2008 12:48:06 PM: > > > > > > Hmm, ok... So all the external USB 8388 dongles have a larger SPI > flash > > to contain both the Boot2 co

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 04:31 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:47 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > What is the post-boot firmware flash functionality supposed to apply to, > > the host-less active antenna? (which is what I heretofore had > > understo

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-18 Thread Dan Williams
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 > > r

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 10:33 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/18/2008 10:08:09 AM: > > > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 08:36 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 19:16 -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote: > > > &

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 08:36 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 19:16 -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote: > > It must be noted that the important issue of this discussion is how to have > > the radio blocked from BEFORE the XO boots, so as not to be conflicting with > > the airline regu

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:18 -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > >> To completely silence the radio: > >> #!/bin/bash > >> rmmod usb8xxx > >> mv /lib/firmaware/usb8883.bin /lib/firmaware/usb8883.bin.quiet > > > For a more user-friendly solution, (short of a hardware rfkill switch) > > put a toggle some

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 09:51 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > I suppose that OFW could reset the wireless to turn it off and then do > some chipset configuration hack that would make that USB port > disappear. I'm just guessing though; I haven't studied the 5536 manual > with this possibility in mi

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 17:06 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > Indeed we had this airplane mode discussion two weeks ago: > Why don't we? > --- This is the correct sledgehammer approach as mbletsas has consistently pointed out. For a more user-friendly solution, (short of a hardware rfkill s

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:30 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: > Hal Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/17/2008 12:55:47 PM: > > > > > > When it comes to our radio - we *designed it* to start forward frames > > > soon after you initialize it and keep doing it regardless of what the > > > host inte

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Dan Williams
od the radioon/radiooff stuff to do anyway, hence the objection to another non-standard ioctl. Dan > > > "Edward Cherlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/16/2008 06:56:17 PM: > > > On Jan 16, 2008 2:46 PM, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 14:01 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: > 2008/1/16 Ricardo Carrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > IMHO, there is no point in investing time in mesh stop/start now (or any > > time in the future unless there is a strong reason for that - which we lack > > now). > > The stated reason for

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:22 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > I believe what you want is "radio off", not "mesh stop". "radio off" == iwconfig eth0 txpower off that's always been around from day #1. > On Jan 16, 2008 8:01 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/16 Ricardo C

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 15:11 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/16/2008 10:48:13 AM: > > > > There's a long explanation for that, but the short one is that the > > driver should no longer periodically run around in cir

Re: power savings will stop transfers

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 13:10 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > >> If you, for example, are transfering a file when the XO enters in >> power savings mode, the transfer will halt. > > For how long? As soon as the XO hits suspend, the WLAN/EC will > assert wakeup on receipt of the next unica

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:29 -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote: > David, > > There are a couple of issues i would like to address, mostly related > to the new wireless driver. > > First, the netstat command: > About 50% of the time it becomes very slow(practically freezes) and > spews a "getnameinfo er

Re: MP3 and the OLPC

2008-01-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:03 -0800, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > I'm trying to understand the legal state of MP3 versus the OLPC > platform. Looking at this wiki page: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Restricted_Formats > > Seems to indicate that handling MP3 requires a license, and thus an > MP

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-11 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, John Gilmore wrote: > > >>> IP addresses are going to change; that's a fact of life. > > > >> I know nothing about routing, but if a participant's IP address is about to > >> change, perhaps the change should be bro

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 00:09 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Dan Williams wrote: > > >> > >> In the server-based backend, an IP address change *will* cause a > >> disconnect and reconnect. This is definitely unavoidable, since XMPP > &g

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 09:00 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 at 22:17:18 -0500, John Watlington wrote: > > We have a presence service which > > provides a way for P2P applications to find > > one another, even after the IP cha

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:18 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: > > > > In the School Server case, using DHCP as the allowed us to collapse two > > steps of the connection process into one. With the previous method, you > > would have to _both_ find the MPP using the non-standard MPP discovery > > meth

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-09 Thread Dan Williams
gn. And it makes the mesh interfaces on a single > server > serve the entire school. Why bother with multiple MPPs at all ? > > >> We briefly discussed using a different autoIP range, and decided > >> it was > >> difficult to implement. > >> &g

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:18 -0600, Charles Durrett wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 11:21 AM, Michail Bletsas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > The largest issue is how wrong, ugly and painful is to use > DHCP on a mesh > network. > Because of RADV, IPv6 does

Re: WPA anomalies in recent Joyride builds

2007-12-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:14 -0500, Marcus Leech wrote: > I use WPA-PSK (WPA personal) at home, and I've noticed anomalies. > > One of the big ones is that it keeps re-prompting for the passphrase > (this is with Joyride 1438), and tearing-down the > association. I looked at /var/log/messages w

Re: WPA - testing

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 15:14 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: > > > "Ricardo Carrano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/13/2007 > 02:54:11 PM: > > > > > > - Whatever changed between 1407 and 1416 seem to have really crashed > > WPA support, I > > mean, now we cannot set it to work via wpa_supplicant

Re: WPA - testing

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 11:10 +0100, Pascal Scheffers wrote: > Works for me on a Sitecom WL-174 WPA-PSK network. One of yesterdays > joyrides. Works for me with 650 against a Linksys WRT54GC after disabling the SIGCHLD handler in /usr/bin/sugar-shell. I actually can't get it to fail, though I'm in

Re: Unable to initialize camera (via mmap interface)

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:03 -0800, Peter Krenesky wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to initialize the camera device and running into some > errors. I'm attempting to use the mmap interface initialized by > VIDIOCGMBUF ioctl. the ioctl is returning -1 and errno is 22. > > Is VIDIOCGMBUF/mmap ev

Re: Voice IM project proposal

2007-12-12 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 10:39 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > >> We do already have a video-chat activity under development - due to >> priorities it hasn't been updated in a while but collaboration on >> that would be welcome. > > In particular I think the problems with video-chat wer

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 8

2007-12-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 19:05 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Yesterday I tried upgrading yoyride to Fedora 8, to see > how much pain it would be. > > After enabling the fedora repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and > tweaking it to make it fetch from version 8, I just did: > > init 3 > yu

Re: [RFC PATCH] libertas: turn radio off when down

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 02:06 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Dan, > >> Last I knew there were cases where mesh forwarding was _not_ >> supposed to be on due to the high power drain of the 8388 when the >> radio was enabled, plus the airplane case. As long as the >> networking core do

RE: [RFC PATCH] libertas: turn radio off when down

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Williams
off > > the radio and save power. > > > > It also cleans up some of the mess that was *_open, the intent for > which > > (unless I'm reading that code wrong) was just to check whether the > > interface was up or not, since that's what open/close do. >

Re: [RFC PATCH] libertas: turn radio off when down

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Williams
> > What's the plan for UI for this? > > --elijah > > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, James Cameron wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:26:57 +1100 > > From: James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc

[RFC PATCH] libertas: turn radio off when down

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Williams
was *_open, the intent for which (unless I'm reading that code wrong) was just to check whether the interface was up or not, since that's what open/close do. Comments? Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c b/drivers/net/wirele

Re: Unicode in filenames

2007-11-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 09:54 -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Joyride-277 doesn't validate, because it contains a file from the > library with a filename in non-normalized unicode. The file is named > 'Annobo?n_Bioko-thumb.jpg', where the ? should be a separated accent > on the o, but it is actuall

Re: [PATCH] Retry frame transmission when libertas driver is busy.

2007-11-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 16:17 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: > Andres, > > On 11/2/07, Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:54:35 -0700 (PDT) > > Ashish Shukla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, uh.. This patch is from Javier, but was originally written by > > Ashis

Re: [PATCH] Configurable beacon interval

2007-10-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:38 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:29:50 -0400 > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 15:42 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: > > > From: Brajesh Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >

Re: [PATCH] Configurable beacon interval

2007-10-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 15:42 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: > From: Brajesh Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > See https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2750#comment:12 > > Requires firmware version 5.110.19.p0 or newer, available here: > http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/ What I'd like to do with pat

Re: ip4-address buddy property - still needed?

2007-10-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:15 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > We still have one set of OLPC-specific patches to Salut (the link-local > collaboration backend) that has been rejected upstream, which is the one > that adds support for the deprecated i

Re: retrieving the activity bundle directory

2007-10-11 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:29 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: > Hi everyone, > > does anyone know if is there a way to retrieve the > activity bundle top directory name under python/sugar? You should be able to: from sugar.activity import activity my_bundle_path = activity.get_bundle_path() Dan

Re: mesh driver in ubuntu

2007-10-02 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 07:49 +1000, Joel Stanley wrote: > On 9/27/07, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have Ubuntu 7.04 with 2.6.20-16 and want to use the 8388 USB module > > with my system. I guess I either need to jump to 2.6.22, or compile the > > driver for 2.6.20. I

Re: mesh driver in ubuntu

2007-10-01 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:22 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > I have Ubuntu 7.04 with 2.6.20-16 and want to use the 8388 USB module > with my system. I guess I either need to jump to 2.6.22, or compile the > driver for 2.6.20. I would prefer the second as the upstream version of > the dri

Re: Marvell

2007-09-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 19:52 +1000, Alex Gibson wrote: > Javier Cardona wrote: > > On 9/13/07, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Are there patents on 802.11s? Even though > >> it's an IEEE standard? > >> > > > > http://standards.ieee.org/db/patents/pat802_11.html > > >

Re: FreeBe, Displaylink

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 06:52 -0700, big one wrote: > > No VGA/EGA/CGA. > > This is some sort of free VESA BIOS and the author said the source code can > be ported to Linux platform: > > http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/freebe/ > > Another option is virtual graphics card (VGC) from Displaylink. The

Re: #3593 NORM Trial-3: Mesh channel randomization breaks NM 'mesh-start' tweakable

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 07:50 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 06:18 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > > I would recommend not making the patch; I think I found it confusing > > only because I didn't know that random impacted link-local. But do we > > still

Re: #3593 NORM Trial-3: Mesh channel randomization breaks NM 'mesh-start' tweakable

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 06:18 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > I would recommend not making the patch; I think I found it confusing > only because I didn't know that random impacted link-local. But do we > still default to channel 1 if no school server is found? No, I'm not confident that we do. Dan

Re: Power envelope (was Re: radio off guarantee?)

2007-09-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 12:12 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: > John Watlington wrote: > >>> Suppose I'm someplace where I don't expect or want to do any mesh > >>> networking. > >>> How much would turning off the radio help battery life? > >>> > >> Last I checked, the effect was very small. T

Re: radio off guarantee?

2007-09-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:33 -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote: > John Watlington wrote: > > > While it makes sense to turn off the wireless networking interface on > > developer > > So there's a slight problem with powering off the wireless interface > from an electrical standpoint. You can't. >

Re: radio off guarantee?

2007-09-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:52 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > moin, > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:42:51 +1000 > James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Do we need a solid way to turn off the RF before it's OK to use an XO > > > on an airplane? > > > > Our target market usually won't have t

Re: wireless networking

2007-09-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 06:55 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 19:52 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: > > > Thanks, I am now seeing my wireless router on > > > the machines and can ping other mac

Re: Anybody do BGA rework?

2007-09-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 00:36 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > I'm wondering if one could replace the 88W8385 > on a gumstix board with an 88W8388 swiped from > an Xbox 360 wireless device. > > They appear to be the same chip package. This of > course does not ensure that enough of the > connections a

Re: wireless networking

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 19:52 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: > Thanks, I am now seeing my wireless router on > the machines and can ping other machines connected > to it. Wired internet seems to work (as far as ifconfig > and ping are concerned). > > Two questions: > > 1. How should I set my hostna

Re: wireless networking

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:08 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: > Hi all, > > Got the delivery of two B4 machines and joined the list today. I am > trying to test the system, so would like to get some help. I am > starting with networking; I have not yet updated to the latest OS image, > though. > >

Re: Marvell

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:27 +0200, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 06:12 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > > > There was an alternative libertas driver which uses the device in 'dumb' > > > mode with the kernel's mac80211 stack. Coupled with mesh support in > > > mac80211 that might

Re: More 16 vs 24 bpp profiling

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:19 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > On 09/11/2007 01:32 PM, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > > > The 16bpp codepath has to be broken somewhere if > > it takes twice the time to copy half the bits :-) > > It strikes me that we don't see any time spent in > pixman_fill_mmx(),

Re: More 16 vs 24 bpp profiling

2007-09-11 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:03 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > (adding xorg-devel@ on Cc) > > On 09/11/2007 11:29 AM, Jordan Crouse wrote: > > On 11/09/07 13:05 +0200, Stefano Fedrigo wrote: > >> I've done some more profiling on the 16 vs. 24 bpp issue. > >> This time I used this test: > >> https:

Re: Marvell

2007-09-11 Thread Dan Williams
u believe that the effort is appreciated and > that documentation will not appear without your efforts. > > It is even more fun if you can discover dark secrets, such as when > somebody spotted Marvell using the GPL eCos OS for a different chip. > That guy even had the balls to attack

Re: Marvell

2007-09-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 10:31 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > As I understand it, the microkernel for the Marvell wireless chipset > is the only remaining proprietary software on the Laptop, and although > we want to get rid of it, nothing is happening. > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/46 > Is that cor

Re: Question about Libertas and anycast_mask

2007-08-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 10:03 -0400, John Watlington wrote: > Dan, > The Reliance team in India is having trouble getting the > anycast_mask flag set. > > A mesh interface is configured and up and running. They echo 1 > / > sys/class/net/msh0/anycast_mask, > but subsequent cat /sys/class/n

Re: Does sugar web browser support extensions?

2007-08-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:43 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: > what was the reason not to support firefox addons again? Well, it's not really a decision, but more of a side-effect. The best and most flexible embedding technology to use is pyxpcom. We're embedding a Gecko engine into a different app, a

Re: olpc-redhat-stream-development-devel_ext3.img version info.

2007-08-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 08:51 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 06:08:05AM -0800, C.W. Holeman II wrote: > > I have : > > olpc-redhat-stream-development-devel_ext3.img > > which I am running with qemu. How do I ask it what version it is? > > Mount this filesystem, then read the

Re: [PATCH] Adding the olpc-register script to olpc-util

2007-07-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:08 -0400, Nelson Elhage wrote: > Here's a fixed version of the patch. Built as: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=84355 dan > - Nelson > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:03:00AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-07-28 a

Libertas firmware update testing

2007-07-30 Thread Dan Williams
Hi, This firmware came in too late for the Trial-2 builds, but we'd like testing nonetheless. If anyone wants to give it a run, I've prepared an RPM you can install on the XO: wget http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/olpc/libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.110.17.p0-1.olpc1.noarch.rpm rpm -Uhv libertas-usb8

Re: [PATCH] Adding the olpc-register script to olpc-util

2007-07-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 11:43 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On 7/27/07, Nelson Elhage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a patch to olpc-util to add a script to register the XO with > > the schoolserver for purposes of backup for trial 2 > > (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/24). > > > +sn =

Re: updatinator status, issues

2007-07-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:00 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > I've updated autoupdatinator (the peer-to-peer mDNS version of the > updatinator downloader) to work with the new repository layout where > manifests are stored as blobs. I've tested it by publishing an apache > http server with a static

Re: Non-XOs showing up in neighborhood

2007-07-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 00:36 +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote: > Hi Sjoerd, > > Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:16:17PM +0200, Michael Rueger wrote: > > > >> Sjoerd Simons wrote: > >> > >> > >>> The Chat activity can uses multi-user chats afaik, which is something only > >>> sup

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