On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:02:24AM +0000, Steger, Marco via Devel wrote:
> 2.) I haven't really found a how-to guide for enabling mesh on Android. It 
> would be great if you can provide a link or source. If there is nothing 
> available, I would like to create such a guide (I think I'm not that only one 
> out there who want to have this :) ), but therefore I would have to try it 
> out for my own first. 
>  And here I really will need your help! 

> Can you shortly state (and maybe shortly explain) the needed steps to enable 
> 802.11s on Android. Would be great and very helpful! 

Sure, this would be a good resource to have.  There was some
documentation once, but not sure if it was public, and I cannot find it
now anyway.

At any rate, I'd be happy to contribute as well -- I have some notes sitting
around here, but it'd be a good exercise for me to rebuild it all from scratch
to validate things.

The gist is:

1. Pick an android development environment and get it building
   for your device (including a modular kernel).  Cyanogenmod is
   probably the easiest starting point.

2. Build the wireless drivers using backports modules.  You'd want
   to get wcn36xx from the github repo as I believe not everything
   is upstream.

3. Rebuild wpa_supplicant with a version using the mesh patches.

4. Modify the android boot scripts to load the backports modules.

I don't believe there is a way to hook mesh into the standard android
UI at this point; my testing was scripted with adb calling wpa_s directly.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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