13.1.0 build 32 for XO-4 released

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 12:41:44 EST 2013


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org> wrote:
> This build is basically usable.  Graphics glitches still exist, as the video
> driver has not been updated yet.  The Record activity can now record audio
> on XO-4, although Scratch cannot.
>
> If you are working with collaboration with this XO-4 build you should turn
> off automatic power management in Sugar.  The disabling of Wake on LAN
> support causes the wifi card is powered down every suspend cycle, and
> therefore cannot sense if another user does something while the first XO
> aggressively suspends.
>
> I saw a case where the 8787 card in a XO-4 C1 claimed to be busy (as seen by
> "iwlist scan") and could not scan or associate to an AP until NetworkManager
> was shutdown & restarted.  This may have caused due to disconnecting from
> one AP to connect to another, but nothing obvious was seen in
> /var/log/messages to explain the situation.

I suggest using "iw wlan0 scan" or "iw eth0 scan" instead of iwlist.
The later is dead and long replaced by iw. It's the iw interface that
NM uses for scanning and it's AP list will/should align with that of
NM where as iwlist doesn't always.

Peter



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