Hi Sjoerd, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:16:17PM +0200, Michael Rueger wrote: > >> Sjoerd Simons wrote: >> >> >>> The Chat activity can uses multi-user chats afaik, which is something only >>> supported by telepathy-salut (it's not standardized). So you won't be able >>> to >>> talk to them unless they use a Telepathy based client. >>> >> So this mean everybody in wireless range and a Telepathy client can chat >> with the kids on the XO mesh? >> > > Yes. There is no (real) difference in the telepathy-salut you can install on > your normal machine and the one on the XO. So you can talk to each-other. > > Joining the mesh without an XO is hard though (as afaik there are no other > machines supporting 802.11s). I'm assuming the Jonathan was using a normal > wireless network when he saw others online, not a mesh. > I was under some kind of weird impression you could join the mesh as a ad-hoc client, you just wouldn't actually participate in any meshing, which seems to be confirmed by the fact at GUADEC, for example, you'd see an 'olpc-mesh' network as ad-hoc?
No idea if this actually works, however, or perhaps I'm totally bongo bananas.... Regards, Trent _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
