On Dec 28, 2007 11:07 AM, Carol Lerche <<a href="mailto:cafl@msbit.com" target="_blank">cafl@msbit.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Does someone know of a USB wireless card/device that incorporates the Marvell chipset and is compatible with the olpc driver?</blockquote><div><br>We talked about this back in March, with the general answer being no. The only close product I've heard of is the xbox 360 wireless adapter that uses a related Marvell chipset but, like the thread explains, they are quite dissimilar in production.
<br> <br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-March/004417.html">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-March/004417.html</a><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am trying to provision a "school server" on conventional hardware to support the four xos that I will be placing in a school.</blockquote><div><br>Awesome.<br>Just need a normal lowend server with School Server builds installed to them. There is a guide to using them on the wiki. Purchase a cheap, 4-port wireless router and you'll be golden. Connect the server to the wired port of the router and have the 4 xos connect to the wireless network. Set your jabber servers to the IP address of your 'school server'. (sugar-control-panel -s jabber
<a href="http://192.168.1.10">192.168.1.10</a> or similar, again, check the wiki). You should be 100% from there.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have just discovered that the xos will not connect to the internet and mesh simultaneously unless they themselves are pretending to be a school server.
</blockquote><div><br>I'm a bit unsure of this one. Where (and in what context) did you hear that? If an XO joins a wireless network from your house, it will share the Internet connection over the mesh (which XOs automatically associate to, allowing for zero-configuration Internet access in some scenarios) to other machines. This is part of hte standard shipping build unless I am mistaken.
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">(I note, btw that the Netgear WGT624 is supported by the openwrt project and appears to have this chipset...wouldn't it be nice to have a compatible, cheap commercial access point that could be used with conventional server hardware just by reflashing? Perhaps someone knows a friendly soul in that project.)
</blockquote><div><br>An fun weekend project would make a OpenWRT router (with a USB-attached harddrive, for the Library...) appear as a school server byrunning the correct jabber daemons, network services and web paths the normal school server would.
<br><br>You do not need a school server (generic or custom) to do the following with 2^ or more unmodified XO laptops: (correct me if I'm wrong/out of date, please)<br>* have 2 or more XOs mesh, appear in eachother's Neighborhoods and be able to collaborate/share activities (basic mesh networking)
<br>* 1 or more XOs, in that mesh, can connect to the internet and the other XOs should be able to make use of that connection *via* the laptop connected, not directly to the router. (mesh network sharing)<br></div></div>
* with a usb->Ethernet dongle, plugging in a network connection to one XO should also allow other XOs on the same mesh network to access the Internet through it. (mesh wired-network sharing)<br clear="all"><br><br>^ a single XO can easily connect to a wireless connection and to the Internet, or via a usb-ethernet dongle.
<br>-- <br>Michael Burns * Student<br>Open Source {Education} Lab