XO visability

[david at lang.hm]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2008 9:34 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> While you don't think it is version specific, knowing what versions you
>> have seen it on would be valuable problem data.
>
> We had up to six XOs at a time in the OLPC booth at SCALE, mostly
> running build 653. Two B4s and up to four G1G1s. I never saw any of
> them display icons for all of the others.

note that in the booth we had a very hostile RF environment. however it 
didn't matter if we connected the laptops to one of the access points (at 
which point we could sucessfully browse out), or tried to connect them via 
mesh. we couldn't reliably get any of them to see the others.

David Lang

>> By "see the other" you mean that the Neighborhood View doesn't show an
>> XO icon for the other XO?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Are these XOs "friends"?
>
> No.
>
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:31:02PM -0800, david at lang.hm wrote:
>>> At SCALE I was seeing systems that showed up as XO laptops, but later
>>> spoke to the people who's names showed up and they don't have XO's (in one
>>> case I found the only machine the person had was a MAC)
>>
>> Yes, MacBooks and Pidgin show up as XO icons, I think it is because they
>> announce over Bonjour / Zeroconf.
>>
>>> any suggestions on where to start/
>>
>> Exclude packet loss.
>>
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