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

[Jim Gettys]

Infrastructure mode should "just work" using the UI, no need for the
script.
                             - Jim


On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 17:36 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 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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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child