On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:54 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > But I don't know if NetworkManager and Sugar are fully organized to do > "Ad Hoc" networking, presence, messaging, file sharing, etc in the > absence of an access point.
They are -- but it's pretty awkward to activate. I am arguing that ad-hoc networking with a preset ESSID, and Salut should be the transparent fallback. Just like the mesh was on earlier releases. > The "mesh channels" in the GUI could be converted to "ad hoc" > channels, unless ad-hoc WiFi networking has a protocol for searching > all the channels for nearby machines. (Channel-less operation would > be simpler for users -- one less setting.) Yep, something like that would work. And if those ad-hoc "channels" are tried in cases where no known ESSIDs are seen, we get a behavioud similar to what we had before. No "mesh" in the strict sense of 802.11s but we get the "under a tree" scenario working. That's what mattered most for our users AFACT. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
