[Server-devel] Announcing OLPC_XS_137

[John Watlington]

Announcing the availabilty of a new XS school server release:  
OLPC_XS_137

This release provides the latest firmware and drivers for the Active  
Antennas,
fixing a number of stability problems and avoiding a problem where  
the mesh
interacted badly with conventional 802.11b/g access points running a  
Broadcom
chipset (such as the Linksys WRT54G).

It also supports hot-plug of the Active Antennas (unplugging and  
plugging
while the server is running.)

Known Problems:
-Laptop registration using the Sugar interface isn't working.  It is  
unclear if the
  problem is with the server or the untested sugar implementation.
-Plenty of missing functionality.

Upgrading from earlier releases has been tested and should work fine,
with one intentional exception:  to avoid disturbing any manual  
configuration
of the server network interfaces, hot-plug of the Active Antennas  
will not be
supported on an upgraded machine until
/etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/network-config.py is run manually.
After running this script, any manually configured network scripts (in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/</tt>) will be saved with a .bak suffix.

John