[OLPC-devel] manual for development board?

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 13:48 +1200, stephen pearce wrote:
> Hi
> Pleased to receive a development board yesterday ..
> serial numbers are
> DA0CL1MB4A8
> 10MBXZZST09
> QTFACA62000012
> AG12012C009
> 
> I tried looking all of these up on Quanta's site .. to no avail ..
> I did find a list of the connectors on one of the wikis .. but these
> are also a series of push to make switches on the board which are not
> mentioned ..
> before I power it up and fry something I would like to see a
> description of the various switches as per other motherboards I've
> played with .. does such a thing exist yet

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Notes_on_using_the_OLPC_developer_boards

> ps does the bios currently support usb keyboard and mouse?

Yes, but you may need to unplug then replug these sometimes, the interim
BIOS is somewhat picky.  Also, we've found some keyboards prevent the
BIOS from finding USB boot devices, so if it doesn't find your flash
drive, hard drive, or CD drive, try unplugging the keyboard until it
boots.

Dan