Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-05-02 Thread Solon Lutz
Dear Alexander Morlang, on Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2008 at 20:27 you wrote: Solon Lutz schrieb: SW Hello Solon, SW It would be nice if you could bring some FON-routers (like 5 to 10) that SW we can use for the workshop for the batman-adv. That would be enough for SW the start, and maybe more

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-04-23 Thread elektra
Hi - I can't recommend using a variety of different wireless hardware with different chipsets, drivers, firmware in a network - yet. And I don't know any USB stick that I would recommend. If someone reading this list has a working recommendation still available for purchase, please add a

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-04-22 Thread Simon Wunderlich
Hello Solon, thank you for the offer, but i really think we should do this workshop in the c-base, because all people will be assembled there, and i'm sure there are some people who will join us spontanously. It would be nice if you could bring some FON-routers (like 5 to 10) that we can use for

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-04-22 Thread M. Peterson
hi will it be some day technically possible to use the marvel wifi chip of the laptop to join the mesh network or is always a router needed? Why canĀ“t that drawn to the laptops with a software solution ? Max

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-04-22 Thread elektra
Hi Max - this is solely a issue of malfunctioning drivers/ WiFi cards in ad-hoc mode. The proprietary Broadcom driver for 2.4 Linux kernels shipped with devices like Linksys WRT54GL, Buffalo WHR-G54S, Asus WL500GP works flawlessly. The Madwifi driver for Atheros cards works but still has

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-04-22 Thread elektra
Hi Phillipe - well, Freifunk and others around the globe are successfully using mesh as network infrastructure for their daily communication needs. (I'm using multihop mesh as internet uplink since 4 years). Here is how it works: Rather than using a zoo of different hardware use one that works,

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-04-22 Thread elektra
Hi Philippe - The WRT54GL's are available here (I'm in Canada), I'm sure it is also available down in the US. That's good to know. We like the Atheros hardware (fonera, meraki) because it's so small in comparison (unless your WRT54GL's are the ones with smaller footprint than the old big

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-04-18 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I think the batman advanced topic is quite new and you wont find people that can help you easily. The first weekend in May we will have a wireless community weekend in Berlin (C-Base). I will be there and so will be Simon. We are the main developers behind the layer 2 implementation.

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-04-18 Thread elektra
Hi - correction: May 2nd-4th not May 2nd-5th. cu elektra Hi - at the Wireless Community Weekend (May 2nd-5th in Berlin/Germany @ C-Base) there will be a test with 20+ Foneras running RO.B.I.N. The B.A.T.M.A.N. developers will be around (maybe we'll miss Axel, he wasn't sure whether he

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-04-06 Thread elektra
Hi - I usually spend my wednesday evening there. cu elektra Hi, my name is Solon and I'm trying to build a wifi network for the Studentendorf Schlachtensee in Berlin. For various reasons, I'd like to integrate BATMAN Advanced into the ROBIN-FW or any other FW that makes deployment through