[OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF Digest, Vol 47, Issue 4

[Nancie Severs]

Hi Sameer, Robert, Carol Ruth,
By copy to Serge, I will be in HCMC for FossAsia. Will yiou be there? Can
you perhaps help with # 1 below?

Yes, the OLPC SF Summit did enliven us! I have a question and maybe a
solution for Carol Ruth on the OS.

1.  My question: Who is the lego robot guy and how do I contact him? I will
be visiting Elaine Negroponte's  project in Cambodia the week of Nov. 14.
She says she brought 8 lego robot kits that are supposed to work with the
XOs and was hoping I would be able to help them figure it out.

I don't know the etoys Activity. Perhaps someone can send me clear
instructions for a very simple beginner Activity with the Lego Robots and
if we can get that working then they'll be able to figure it out?

Thanks. I appreciate any suggestions.

2. Carol Ruth, When I debricked old G1G1's and tried to upgrade to 11.2.0,
I perhaps had a similar firmware issue.

A. After reflashing I got the name screen byt the touchpad and keys were
frozen, didn't work. Richard Smith suggested that, at that point, first try
to this:  Power off with the power button. Unplug the laptop. AND Remove
the battery. Leave it for a few minutes. Then turn it back on.

Sounds simple but it worked for me. If you have a similar issue. do try
that first.
B.
Or were you not able to get the update to install at all?
I had that problem too. The XOs had the original oldest build and home
screen after debricking. I tried flashing from a usb drive to intermediary
builds first. They did not take 10.3. This is what worked:  Download the 2
files for 8.2.1 on a clean usb drive. Flash to that build. Then from 8.2.1,
with another clean USB with 11.2.0 on it, reflash again. That's what worked
and then I got the frozen key/screen problem, then removed power &
afterwards everything worked!

Hope this  helps! I'm in Bangkok on wireless with my XO. If you want to
paste the OS tips above into an email for the support gang, please do so.
Sorry, I don't have time to do it today.

*Thanks in advance for any contact info or tips on the lego robots!
Warm regards to all of you! Nancie
*
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:00 PM, <olpc-sf-request at lists.laptop.org> wrote:

> Send OLPC-SF mailing list submissions to
>        olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>        http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>        olpc-sf-request at lists.laptop.org
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
>        olpc-sf-owner at lists.laptop.org
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of OLPC-SF digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>   1. Re: OLPC-SF Digest, Vol 47, Issue 1 (carol)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:23:48 -0700
> From: carol <carol at carolruthsilver.net>
> To: olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF Digest, Vol 47, Issue 1
> Message-ID: <4EB41FA4.5070802 at carolruthsilver.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> The Summit should have enlivened us! It did me.
> Robert, will you help me upgrade to the new OS at the meeting on the
> 12th?  I tried, but as usual, was defeated by the tech challenges.
> Something about firmware . . .   I plan to bring my XO.
> Also on agenda should we have a discussion of the Sugar election, which
> some of us have been trying to understand?
> Regards,
> Carol Ruth Silver
>
>
> On 11/03/2011 12:30 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Cherry Withers<cwithers at ekindling.org>
>  wrote:
> >> I thought we're taking a 2-month break after the summit? :-D
> >>
> > There's much to be done. No rest for the weary!
> >
> > --
> > Sameer
> > _______________________________________________
> > OLPC-SF mailing list
> > OLPC-SF at lists.laptop.org
> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
>
>
> --
> ___________________________________
> Law Offices of Carol Ruth Silver
> 68 Ramona Av San Francisco CA 94103
> 415 861 5802  carol at silverlaw.biz
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> OLPC-SF mailing list
> OLPC-SF at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
>
>
> End of OLPC-SF Digest, Vol 47, Issue 4
> **************************************
>



-- 
**Nancie
This email came from my XO from OLPC!
Please check out One Laptop Per Child at http://laptop.org/ and help make
the world a better place!
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/attachments/20111106/ff87e087/attachment.html>