1 February 2008 by Lars
Stuff on the OLPC
Got the two OLPC laptops. Not going to post pictures here – they all look the same. Modifications made immediately, and results:
- Gave them a fixed DHCP address on the router. Didn’t work – they seem to choose different MAC addresses – the different antennae?
- Set root password, so I could log in remotely using SSH.
- Added Activities. Not all of them work. Using the GUI to remove them ALSO doesn’t always work – go to /home/olpc/Activities and remove them manually. I’ll start removing them as they turn out to be “bad” or unused.
- Installed Flash and removed Click2Play. Mostly works.
- Still need to install MP3 capability, but has not been missed so far.
- Installed remote access so I can help (mostly) and monitor (not yet necessary). Note that I pulled the latest packages from different locations:
Lars - 1 February 2008 @ 10:01
So the command line is:
rpm -i -v –nodeps http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386/vnc-server-4.1.2-19.fc7.i386.rpm
yum install openssl097a
rpm -i -v http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/7/i386/RPMS.dries/x11vnc-0.9.3-1.fc7.rf.i386.rpm
Lars - 1 February 2008 @ 10:06
Then to run it:
ssh root@olpc
su – olpc
export DISPLAY=:0
x11vnc -ncache 10