Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
We can always lock the mesh interface to a single channel, and keep the
normal APs on the two others. Also turning down the Tx power will reduce
interference with normal 802.11b/g. As an absolute fall-back, there is a
snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the
Rob,
After brainstorming with some other folks at Hacker's, our feeling is the
problem was caused by having multiple APs with the same identical SSID,
but multiple MACs. This should be easy to reproduce if you can
reconfigure several APs without causing other problems. :-)
It would be a
I've noticed that mesh activity appears to be ALWAYS on. Even when
the laptop is not doing anything, as in not conected to a school/local
mesh and not sharing any activity. Sometimes even on Suspend mode I
see the Wireless activity light flashing. I'm sure this somehow
drains batteries faster
Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
I've noticed that mesh activity appears to be ALWAYS on. Even when
the laptop is not doing anything, as in not conected to a school/local
mesh and not sharing any activity. Sometimes even on Suspend mode I
see the Wireless activity light flashing. I'm sure this
Laura Creighton wrote:
I am at a conference.
there are many OLPCs here. They are interfering with the wireless
here. They apparantly do this even when not officially trying to be
connected to the network,
just being powered on is enough.
Knowing what version of the software these
We can always lock the mesh interface to a single channel, and keep the
normal APs on the two others. Also turning down the Tx power will reduce
interference with normal 802.11b/g. As an absolute fall-back, there is a
snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the wireless interface
(Airplane mode