[OLPC-NYC] what to do differently next time

[Kevin Mark]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 08:24:14PM -0400, Marife Mago wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Thanks for this insight.  Would you like to take note some of this in a wiki. 
> I believe if we document this, it will be a great resource for some initial 
> small deployments, who doesn't have yet the expertise or skills to do this. 

That was the first time I ever did that procedure myself, I have just read
about it beforehand. So I was noting what we can do next time to add to our
procedures. When we do the next batch, I will try my suggestions and see if
that improves the odds of catching any more troublesome units. Then I will have
not data to make a fuller report and maybe we can use a video camera next time
to make that video.

> 
> Of course, if you can make George's wish come true of a nice clear video of the
> step by step XO reflashing that would be awesome.
> 
> BTW: I can just physically give to you a screw driver, I still need a lot of XO
> to fix before I can grant your wish.
Well there is one way for you to get better: practice! I will give you that
change the next time and guide all of our helpers in taking the top section
off.

> 
> Also, another thing to include on the steps is  how to execute the command in
> the XO console 'like where and what they should type in' to know if the wifi is
> working or not.

There is one main command to check the wifi, the left rocker test. But you can
also see if you are connected by looking in the neighboorhood view, at the
frame icon for wifi and lastly with something like route, ping and iwconfig in
the console.

> 
> Let me know your thoughts on this.  If my time permits I'll start a wiki page
> that can be included as one of the project of OLPC_NYC.  Takers are welcome. 
> :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>     Hi folks,
>     I was going over the events of our activities at WIN and I expect the work
>     we
>     did at addressing the system error and OS upgrade to not be 100 %
>     successful.
>     There are a few issues that I dont know if they were taken care of
>     properly. We
>     did not set the system date on 10 units, so those will have to be redone at
>     some point. But I realize that we did not inspect the units after the
>     procedure
>     to see if the system error did not reoccur. I also dont know if any of the
>     units had a dead coin cell battery or if any had the coin cell disloged as
>     was
>     reported on some early XO-1 units. The procedure we did last time should
>     correct the issues with most machines but there is a certainty that some
>     will
>     need to reexamined because of the system date or coin cell issue in the
>     future.
>     So I thought I would mention that. Mafe may need to get out that
>     screwdriver
>     that she used in Boston and join our efforts at opening XOs :)
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