<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I have both Raspberry Pi 2 & 3. I have tested on RPI2 and 3, and here are the results for RPI2 : </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Wi-Fi isn’t working like it should. It isn’t just connecting. Not sure if it is a driver problem. The Wi-Fi adapter I used is “Digisol dg-wn3150nu”</p><p class=MsoNormal>It showed the networks, but failed to connect to one. It lagged. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I shouldn’t just yet tell it stable.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note : If you just switch off your RPI by pulling the plug, it will ask you for login after you start it again. So it’s a good practice to use Shutdown/restart function </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:rishabhthaney@gmail.com">Rishabh Thaney</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, July 7, 2017 7:08 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">James Cameron</a>; <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC project- Sugar on Raspberry Pi image build</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>G'day everyone<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The WiFi issue(RPi3) has been fixed and I've configured automatic login in the latest image build.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It also switches to Sugar session automatically.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The image builds for raspberry pi 2 & 3 can be found here: <a href="https://people.sugarlabs.org/rishabh/">https://people.sugarlabs.org/rishabh/</a></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The repository used to reproduce is this: <a href="https://github.com/Rishabh42/rpi23-gen-image">https://github.com/Rishabh42/rpi23-gen-image</a></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And I've also updated the Debian/Raspberry_Pi page with the method I used to configure automatic login, </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>please refer to this page: <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian/Raspberry_Pi">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian/Raspberry_Pi</a></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Please note: The RPi 2 image has not been tested by me because I don't have a raspberry pi 2, please share the test results</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>if anyone tests that image.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Warm regards</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Rishabh</p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Rishabh Thaney <<a href="mailto:rishabhthaney@gmail.com" target="_blank">rishabhthaney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>G'day James</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 at 3:58 AM James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Please try the latest release candidate build 1.5 published yesterday,<br>see the edits by Thomas on the Wiki page. This will test whether your<br>problem with booting was fixed.<br><br>If the problem persists, please verify the data on the microSD card<br>using the method that I described in IRC; using dd with bs=1024 and<br>count set to number of 1024 byte blocks in the original image, piped<br>to md5sum. Compare the md5sum with that of the .raw file.</p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I had tried flashing my card using the method described on their website but even that didn't work. I'll try testing it with the new changes made by Thomas.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br>If the problem persists, please log a bug with Fedora. Sugar Labs<br>needs Fedora SoaS to work well, as it has a good set of example<br>activities.<br><br>Thanks for adding automatic login feature, but I've no idea what you<br>did.</p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I will update the Debian/Raspberry_pi page with the method I used to add the automatic login feature. I basically configured the lightdm.conf file while the image was building, will share the configuration. </p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>Please also;<br><br>- update your GitHub repository; last update was 14 days ago therefore<br> your build is no longer reproducible,</p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Okay</p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br>- update your blog; it is two weeks out of date, (lower the time cost<br> of an update by reducing how much you write),</p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I was working on my next blog post currently, I wanted to include the method to add autologin feature in the post too which we added day before yesterday.</p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>- update the Wiki page; by removing broken links and answering any<br> ambiguities,</p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>- don't delete old builds so quickly; on <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">people.sugarlabs.org</a> it is no<br> longer possible to compare your previous build and the new build,</p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Okay, should I upload the build that I deleted?</p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br>- be more consistent with file names on your <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">people.sugarlabs.org</a><br> directory; the naming was inconsistent until you deleted an old<br> build,</p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That file which I deleted wasn't an image build but a raw file of the build, I had uploaded that by mistake.</p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br>- always mail to sugar-devel@ any new build; don't expect people to go<br> looking in your <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">people.sugarlabs.org</a> directory for changes.</p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Was thinking of including the method to add autologin feature with the image build I will publish on sugar-devel, will do both today.</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br>Hope that helps!</p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for all the suggestions :)</p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 08:49:27PM +0530, Rishabh Thaney wrote:<br>> Thanks James for suggesting the Fedora SoAS, I did follow the instructions <br>> on their page to flash it on my SD card but it still doesn't boot.<br>><br>> Moreover we did arrive at a fix for automatic login today and it's working<br>> pretty well.<br>> I wil work on reproducing an image with the automatic login fix and upload it<br>> to my Sunjammer account.<br>><br>> Warm regards<br>> Rishabh <br>><br>> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 12:20 PM, James Cameron <[1]<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Thanks to Thomas for testing and comparison of a recent Fedora SoaS<br>> image, which has way more activities and has automatic login<br>> configured.<br>><br>> [2]<a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian/Raspberry_Pi" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian/Raspberry_Pi</a> updated.<br>><br>> Given this, and the problems so far with rpi23-gen-image missing out<br>> on recommended packages, and the two weeks it has taken to not fix the<br>> automatic login, and their unfamiliarity with X server display manager<br>> configuration, may I suggest the team switch to using Fedora SoaS?<br>><br>> This will set them forward on their task significantly, while still<br>> meeting the original project idea.<br>><br>> There's also an issue with distributing the wireless firmware; Fedora<br>> avoids it, but provides a FAQ explaining how to download it. As<br>> Fedora has a problem with distributing, so too may Sugar Labs.<br>><br>> [3]<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_Pi?rd=" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_Pi?rd=</a><br>> Raspberry_Pi#Wifi:<br>><br>> --<br>> James Cameron<br>> [4]<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Sugar-devel mailing list<br>> [5]<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>> [6]<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>><br>> References:<br>><br>> [1] mailto:<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a><br>> [2] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian/Raspberry_Pi" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian/Raspberry_Pi</a><br>> [3] <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_Pi?rd=Raspberry_Pi#Wifi" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_Pi?rd=Raspberry_Pi#Wifi</a><br>> [4] <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>> [5] mailto:<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>> [6] <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br><br>--<br>James Cameron<br><a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Sugar-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>