On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Tony Godshall <[email protected]> wrote: >> Seen on LWN (https://lwn.net/Articles/455207/), a group is implementing >> the 802.11s WiFi standard. Project page is here: >> http://www.open80211s.org/trac. Maybe people already in the mesh networks >> here can tell if it is interesting. > > If you'd actually read their home page you'd see this: > > "open80211s has been accepted in mainline Linux kernel and is included > in release 2.6.26...." > > In other words, it's already in your favorite distro. > > If your chipset is supported, you can try it. Then you can say "this > works for me with distro d chipset c" or "I had to do x or y to get > this to work" instead of "have you heard of this?" > > T >
You can also get a USB wireless device with the supported drivers and try it out if your built-in chipset doesn't support it. The ZyDAS driver-based USB dongles are fairly cheap at $15 or so, the last time I checked. http://o11s.org/trac/wiki/HOWTO cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
