Well, could someone point me to the kernel fix, which could solve the problem by backporting. That should be an interesting exercise.
Regards, Ajay On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Anish Mangal <an...@activitycentral.com>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/02/2012 07:59 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Ajay Garg <ajaygargn...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> Good News. > >> > >> I managed to get this working (albeit via changes in sugar). > >> > >> The details are at :: > >> > http://git.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/mainline/commit/4ac1a5300f4c43608b0f009a23d966d404a15632 > > > >> > > The patch seems fairly wrong to me. You are hiding the mesh icons > > in sugar, but the mesh is active. Packet forwarding is still > > happening. > > > > One of the top reasons we stopped using mesh is because it > > saturates the RF spectrum, which is a bad thing to do when you have > > many users in a small space (ie: in a school). > > > > You had the mesh disable trick working on F11, and (I assume) > > happy users of that feature. With this, the feature is broken, but > > you're making the UI look right... > > > > I agree. > > The *problem* we are trying to solve is not to have a pretty > mesh-icon-free-UI (which is a side effect), but disable the mesh at a > hardware level. > > This patch *won't* solve the problem, as it will still flood the air > with packet forwarding. > > - From the discussion, it seems to me that the kernel level switch is > present in 12.x.x onwards, but not so for 11.3.x. > > In 10.3.x(f11) we got lucky as we were able to avoid the race condition. > > I suggest we keep looking for a proper solution: > * Can the kernel fix be backported (might require a lot of work) > * Can we tinker with the udev, postresume scripts to have it 'just' > working > > I have reverted the commit: > > > http://git.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/mainline/commit/20ef9a14dd55908aec6c04cf3edddc51004aabb0 > > > cheers, > > > > > > > > m > > > - -- > Anish > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPoU9PAAoJEBoxUdDHDZVp+DAH/j/RUl6AarwSlz0oUGIuPa5b > FxpFOwO6edA0Avd4Zv0/0x3FWlaAEHwkkyz6Vcsq3Px0lxecX0JgYrEgaXWJP4l0 > YRBqROOBCzkVKxk7dEWZ003igZSGKbSmuRMlj4v4Qpv0yU9Tfi/GS3T1Q+r02B0o > igF9XjmLT5lFcZ4U1e7vE/foU4f7Y5ugg/TON6u/Oh0GNF8bDdOSkY/xKhGlAkIf > 72d1pSt03ypcQgUHy7mRhORj1rc1d1YCWiyZLv2iUXdR2OyR8qjukw2HjQ2Gu5ts > DwTeumIy+QSF7fDIZkE83dErrmLJLUGvQ/4oqT50zhgI63o+/v8qBpa40XRo3bc= > =KMS0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
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