Does anyone know how to donate the XO I received back to OLPC?--JDG<br><br>
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<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. I/O error when writing with built-in SD slot, but not with<br> USB SD adapter (Denver Gingerich)<br> 2. Re: Help with Time Zone, Time and Date (franco)<br> 3. Re: Sending attachments (jay)
<br> 4. Re: Friend via Internet? (franco)<br> 5. Re: Friend via Internet? (tdang)<br> 6. Re: Slightly sticky keyboard--RMA? (tdang)<br> 7. Re: LinkSys WRT54GX2 - What the status and what to do<br> (Michael E. Carver)
<br> 8. Re: Sticky keyboard keys; Please RMA the laptops (Anonymous)<br> 9. Re: Sticky keyboard keys; Please RMA the laptops (Steve Holton)<br> 10. Re: LinkSys WRT54GX2 - What the status and what to do (Dwaine)<br> 11. Re: Steps to install Joyride? (Dwaine)
<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:02:07 -0500<br>From: "Denver Gingerich" <<a href="mailto:denver@ossguy.com">denver@ossguy.com
</a>><br>Subject: [olpc-help] I/O error when writing with built-in SD slot, but<br> not with USB SD adapter<br>To: "OLPC Community Support" <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org
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<br><br>I have installed Ubuntu on an 8GB SDHC card (see<br><a href="http://www.freelikegnu.org/?p=21" target="_blank">http://www.freelikegnu.org/?p=21</a>). When I put the SDHC card into the<br>XO's built-in SD slot, boot it, and use it for an hour, I get about 5
<br>error messages over the course of the hour of the following formats in<br>the dmesg output:<br><br>mmcblk0: error 1 transferring data<br>end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 3407947<br><br>These can result from a variety of operations, with the commonality
<br>being that they all appear to be writing to the disk. For example:<br><br>$ sudo mount -tjffs2 -oro mtd0 /mnt/nand<br>can't create lock file /etc/mtab~1909: Input/output error (use -n flag<br>to override)<br><br>
When I plug the SDHC card into a USB reader, connect that to the XO<br>and boot from there, it works fine (several hours of use does not<br>produce any I/O error messages in the dmesg output).<br><br>To confirm the problem, I tried the following with the terminal
<br>activity while booted to the regular build 650 in flash (with the 8GB<br>SD card in the XO's SD slot):<br><br>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0p1<br><br>This produced several errors of the above form ("mmcblk0: error...")
<br>as well as some of the following form (in the dmesg output):<br><br>Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p1, logical block 99541<br>lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p1<br><br>In all, I found about 100 lines of these errors in dmesg after
<br>performing the dd command above.<br><br>When I try the same thing with the USB SD adapter I have (replacing<br>mmcblk0p1 with sdb1 in the above dd command), I received no such<br>errors in the dmesg output and dd runs to completion. So it seems
<br>that writing to the SD card using the<br>built-in SD slot has problems, but using a USB SD adapter to write<br>does not have problems.<br><br>Reading the SD card using dd with the built-in SD slot or the USB SD<br>adapter ("dd if=/dev/<device> of=/dev/null") does not produce any
<br>errors in the dmesg output.<br><br><br>To summarize, it appears that the built-in SD slot causes I/O errors<br>when writing to an SD card even if the SD card is fine (as verified<br>with the USB SD adapter).<br><br><br>
My research on this has shown similar errors reported by other people,<br>but not necessarily in the same situations or with known-good SD<br>cards. See the following URLs:<br><br><a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1802" target="_blank">
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1802</a><br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Secure_Digital_card" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Secure_Digital_card</a><br><br>It may be important to note that I am using an ext2 partition on my SD
<br>card. One person has reported that using FAT is part of the SD<br>standard, which could cause problems, but I have been unable to verify<br>that. This seems like a strange requirement, though. See the<br>following URL for that comment:
<br><br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2006-December/003222.html" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2006-December/003222.html</a><br><br><br>Has anyone had similar problems to this? Is there a way to fix it or
<br>is it most likely a defective SD slot in the XO?<br><br>Please CC me in your reply. I am not on the mailing list.<br><br>Denver<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:00:47 +0000
<br>From: "franco" <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [olpc-help] Help with Time Zone, Time and Date<br>To: <a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">
community-support@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1200938447.m2f.12829@olpc.osuosl.org">1200938447.m2f.12829@olpc.osuosl.org</a>><br><br><br>All those new to linux can find help via google. For instance, for this use
<br><br>linux <what ever keyword/problem you have><br><br>will get you an answer faster than it will here.<br><br>Some things can't be done at the $ prompt and you must become superuser (the # prompt).<br><br>exit gets you back out of superuser status.
<br><br>------------------------<br>If I give advice it is usually because I did it / tested it successfully on my XO. I will warn you otherwise.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3
<br>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:15:53 +0000<br>From: "jay" <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [olpc-help] Sending attachments<br>To:
<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1200939353.m2f.12834@olpc.osuosl.org">1200939353.m2f.12834@olpc.osuosl.org</a>><br><br><br>I can confirm that Opera works as one is accustomed by giving access to the file system. The font size small but readable.
<br><br>It's not clear to me, however, that files in Journal can be easily identified to attach. If I understand things, the files have system-assigned id's. So, I think you would need to drag the file to a usb or flash drive, where th file's name is recognizible, and select it from there in Opera's attachment interface.
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:45:08 +0000<br>From: "franco" <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org
</a>><br>Subject: Re: [olpc-help] Friend via Internet?<br>To: <a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1200941108.m2f.12849@olpc.osuosl.org">
1200941108.m2f.12849@olpc.osuosl.org</a>><br><br><br>I see no answer to you. Have you solved it already?<br><br>Here is the wiki page on what you want to do:<br><br><a href="http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/start/invite.shtml" target="_blank">
http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/start/invite.shtml</a><br><br>------------------------<br>If I give advice it is usually because I did it / tested it successfully on my XO. I will warn you otherwise.<br><br><br><br><br>
<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 5<br>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:18:46 +0000<br>From: "tdang" <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>
><br>Subject: Re: [olpc-help] Friend via Internet?<br>To: <a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1200943126.m2f.12859@olpc.osuosl.org">
1200943126.m2f.12859@olpc.osuosl.org</a>><br><br><br>No, I haven't gotten an answer yet. It's on the back-burner in any case, since my XO's are both in the RMA process. (I did set up a Ubuntu desktop w/XO emulator, but it's sooooo slow, maybe I'll try another tactic to speed it up or maybe I'll jsut blow it off.)
<br><br>My suspicion is that it's necessary to (at least initially) connect via a Jabber server. That's got me wondering what it takes to run Jabber, and if it would be possible to run some kinda itty-bitty Jabber on an XO itself to make its own mini-neighborhood.
<br><br>-Timothy<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 6<br>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:22:01 +0000<br>From: "tdang" <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">
community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [olpc-help] Slightly sticky keyboard--RMA?<br>To: <a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1200943321.m2f.12864@olpc.osuosl.org">
1200943321.m2f.12864@olpc.osuosl.org</a>><br><br><br>Thanks franco<br><br>It's too late now, I'm past the 30-day period. I'll have to see how things go.<br><br>-Timothy<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------
<br><br>Message: 7<br>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:41:22 -0800<br>From: "Michael E. Carver" <<a href="mailto:mcarver@kazart.com">mcarver@kazart.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [olpc-help] LinkSys WRT54GX2 - What the status and what
<br> to do<br>To: OLPC Community Support <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:47951F92.3090607@kazart.com">47951F92.3090607@kazart.com
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>It would be nice to see this solved. My public library just happens to<br>be running their public WiFi access through this same model of router.
<br>My XO is not welcome at the library :-( since firing it up, shuts down<br>access to all users of the public WiFi there...<br><br>Kate Davis wrote:<br>> Dwaine wrote:<br>><br>>> Is it a bug in the chipset or could it be possibly be fixed with a firmware fix?
<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>> The current software does not support the MIMO.<br>><br>><br>>> Maybe we could follow up with tech support with these vendors; getting them to take a look at the problem.
<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>> Please read the defect report. There may be a way for you to participate<br>> in the resolution of this issues.<br>> _______________________________________________
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<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 8<br>Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:45:24 +0000<br>From: "Anonymous" <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org
</a>><br>Subject: Re: [olpc-help] Sticky keyboard keys; Please RMA the laptops<br>To: <a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1200962723.m2f.12919@olpc.osuosl.org">
1200962723.m2f.12919@olpc.osuosl.org</a>><br><br><br>I had the sticky keys issue show up at 36 days. I was not able to get an RMA number.<br><br>I ran the self test on the keyboard by pressing the left key on the keypad during startup. When I type on the keyboard on keys near the Alt key, the Alt key keeps turning on and off and sometimes it stays on even when no keys are being pressed.
<br><br>Is there any recourse for those of us with this sticky keys issue past 30 days?<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 9<br>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:00:20 -0500<br>From: "Steve Holton" <
<a href="mailto:sph0lt0n@gmail.com">sph0lt0n@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [olpc-help] Sticky keyboard keys; Please RMA the laptops<br>To: <a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org
</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:95fa435c0801211700r51632b8ey20c636b306024d73@mail.gmail.com">95fa435c0801211700r51632b8ey20c636b306024d73@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
<br><br>On Jan 21, 2008 7:45 PM, Anonymous <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> I had the sticky keys issue show up at 36 days. I was not able to get an RMA number.
<br>><br>> I ran the self test on the keyboard by pressing the left key on the keypad during startup. When I type on the keyboard on keys near the Alt key, the Alt key keeps turning on and off and sometimes it stays on even when no keys are being pressed.
<br>><br>> Is there any recourse for those of us with this sticky keys issue past 30 days?<br><br>Best of my knowledge-<br><br>- the first units showing the problem and returned for RMA are just<br>now being made available to the developers for diagnosis.
<br>- There is still considerable doubt whether this is a hardware-only<br>problem, a software-only problem or a combination. In other words, no<br>one has yet decided that it cannot be fixed in hardware. So there is<br>still hope.
<br>- There are ongoing discussions about how to create a spare parts and<br>repair program, with significant effort toward building a<br>volunteer-only, cost of parts + donation only spares and repair<br>system. To premature to announce anything yet.
<br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br><br><br>--<br>Steve Holton<br><a href="mailto:sph0lt0n@gmail.com">sph0lt0n@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 10<br>Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:57:58 +0000
<br>From: "Dwaine" <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [olpc-help] LinkSys WRT54GX2 - What the status and what<br> to do<br>To:
<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1200970678.m2f.12954@olpc.osuosl.org">1200970678.m2f.12954@olpc.osuosl.org</a>><br><br><br>Boy does the router not like the xo laptop... It completely shuts down the wireless link. The LED for wireless activity shuts off.
<br><br>Which ticket is the router problem? I noticed a couple of tickets, we should have a master ticket?<br><br>Dwaine<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 11<br>Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:05:00 +0000
<br>From: "Dwaine" <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [olpc-help] Steps to install Joyride?<br>To: <a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">
community-support@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1200971100.m2f.12959@olpc.osuosl.org">1200971100.m2f.12959@olpc.osuosl.org</a>><br><br><br>Did a olpc-update joyride-1569 and it picked up the latest version from today.
<br><br>I do notice some script errors when updating from joyride.<br><br>Update Failed: Command '['/usr/sbin/olpc-contents-verify', '/versions/updates/f153c blah blah....<br>returned non-zero exit status 1.
<br><br>Then it tries a dirty-rsync and the update completes. Is this normal? When I do a shutdown -r now, it boots with the new updated image.<br><br>Dwaine<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------
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