Adventurers: please take new firmware Q2B83 and a build 353 for a test drive.

[Guido van Rossum]

I did this (new firmware and new boot image). No problems so far exept
I can't seem to access the network; e.g. the web app always gives me a
Page Load Error when I enter a URL.  Do I have to follow the mesh
instructions for that or were those only for attempting to use the
mesh (which makes no sense since there aren't any other XO users
nearby in my building).

(I found a newer boot image, 354, but after downloading the md5 sum
was incorrect, so I stuck to 353.)

--Guido

On 3/28/07, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
> Build 353 is getting very close to our goals for the trial.  Remaining
> are:
>         o fixing a bug that is causing Sugar to crash on boot; rebooting the
> machine will generally fix it.  As of a few minutes ago, Trent Lloyd
> understands the fault and I expect it will be resolved tomorrow.
>         o providing a UI for telling the system to join the mesh.
> and possibly a few other things.
>
> So the adventurous of you should install the Q2B83 firmware and Build
> 353; it would help to get some feedback if anyone runs into serious
> problems.  If you have to ask us how to find and install this firmware
> and build, you're probably not the right person to try these.
>
> If you want to play with the mesh before the build with the working UI
> for selecting the mesh, I attach some scripts.
>                                    - Jim
>
> --
> Jim Gettys
> One Laptop Per Child
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michail Bletsas <mbletsas at media.mit.edu>
> To: walter at laptop.org
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:16:42 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: how to get internet access via our mesh testbed
>
> In order to try internet access via our mesh testbed you need to do two
> things:
>
> 1. configure and start your msh0 interface.
> The attached msh0-conf script will do that and assign a network 10.
> address to it based on the last 3 bytes of its MAC address
>
> 2. check for a mesh portal (internet gateway). To do that run the attached
> mppreq_client.py script. No news is good news when you run that script.
> If a mesh portal gets discovered, its IP address will be added to the
> routing table as the default route.
>
>
> M.
>
>
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