On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > A) The Sugar business and gabble/salut collaboration happens in the
Correct. > B) We could choose to use 802.3 (Ethernet) or 802.11a/b/g/n (...) Correct again. There are 2 things at work - We are trying to make the "under a tree" user experience "just work" by using ad hoc instead of 802.11s, which has given us more pain than useful outcomes. Not entirely trivial, but doable. - We are trying to separate the concept of "mesh" (802.11s) from "collaboration" (telepathy, etc). Both concepts are mixed up in our communications, docs, etc. > If all this is correct, then my interest, which was in seeing if the > Marvell chip will do open80211s, was only to see if open80211s could > be enabled some time in the future (even if it is only to showcase > something cool). Yes. As you describe, we're sidestepping 802.11s, preferring a simpler approach based on ad-hoc networking for "under a tree", and traditional 802.11a/b/g in spots where an AP is available. And we're encouraging people to tinker with alternative implementations -- such as open80211s -- but it's not in our roadmap. In terms of making it work, I see open80211s needs devices that have a 'mac80211' driver. I don't fully understand the "softmac/hardmac/fullmac" nomenclature, but we do have a "softmac" driver for our old libertas device. It was written against an older kernel -- may need a bit of TLC -- see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Libertas_Thinfirmware_HOWTO . For the Libertas device on the XO-1.5, I do lobby for a similar softmac driver (to run it as a hostap device). But my influence is limited there -- the hot thing is the XO itself, not the XS ;-) cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- 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 Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
