[Testing] Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 21 November 2010

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:30:16PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> We have prototype XO-1.5 hardware where the wireless function does not
> survive going to sleep. This isn't normally a problem, we just turn
> off power saving and restart after installing a new build. On one
> unit, even after doing this, we were unable to see anything in the
> neighbourhood view. We tested this at the end of the day and
> unfortunately didn't examine in great detail, but I remember that the
> wireless interface didn't show up in ifconfig -a.

Check the laptop again.  If the wireless device still doesn't show up
after a boot, it may have been damaged by electrostatic discharge, which
was a known vulnerability with certain early models of XO-1.5.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/