Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:32, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Tomeu, > > On 10 Jun 2009, at 10:18, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 03:16, Andrés Ambrois >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:07:19 pm Martin Dengler wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:46:07AM +0100, Gary C

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-14 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 10 Jun 2009, at 10:18, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 03:16, Andrés > Ambrois wrote: >> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:07:19 pm Martin Dengler wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:46:07AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: There's another 'non-mesh' option possible for th

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-10 Thread simon
> outside bugtracker > > I'm not aware of the existence of any 802.11s USB adapters which could > be plugged into a netbook for mesh. > There is a project for 802.11s on Linux, which I believe is now in the main kernel. http://www.open80211s.org/ I have a device 'zd1211rw' which is partially supp

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79?NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 03:57, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 10 Jun 2009, at 02:29, Martin Dengler wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:16:12PM -0300, Andrés Ambrois wrote: >>> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:07:19 pm Martin Dengler wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:46:07AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 03:16, Andrés Ambrois wrote: > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:07:19 pm Martin Dengler wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:46:07AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: >> > There's another 'non-mesh' option possible for the '3 kids under a tree' >> > case. They will likely have no AP/inf

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79?NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Jun 2009, at 02:29, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:16:12PM -0300, Andrés Ambrois wrote: >> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:07:19 pm Martin Dengler wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:46:07AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: There's another 'non-mesh' option possible for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79?NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:16:12PM -0300, Andrés Ambrois wrote: > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:07:19 pm Martin Dengler wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:46:07AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: > > > There's another 'non-mesh' option possible for the '3 kids under a tree' > > > case. They will likely

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Andrés Ambrois
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:07:19 pm Martin Dengler wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:46:07AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: > > There's another 'non-mesh' option possible for the '3 kids under a tree' > > case. They will likely have no AP/infrastructure to connect to, so > > blanking the jabber serv

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:46:07AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 10 Jun 2009, at 00:53, Martin Dengler wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:20:41AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: >>> Hmmm this is an opportunity to display my ignorance and/or confusion, >>> but my XOs usually just "find" each other on

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Andrés Ambrois
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 08:20:41 pm Sean DALY wrote: > Hmmm this is an opportunity to display my ignorance and/or confusion, > but my XOs usually just "find" each other on the mesh... a club the > netbooks can't belong to... so back on the XOs I have to hunt and > click on the wireless network for

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Jun 2009, at 00:53, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:20:41AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: >> Hmmm this is an opportunity to display my ignorance and/or confusion, >> but my XOs usually just "find" each other on the mesh > > Unfortunately this 'just "find"' is actually a complex

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:20:41AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > Hmmm this is an opportunity to display my ignorance and/or confusion, > but my XOs usually just "find" each other on the mesh Unfortunately this 'just "find"' is actually a complex process involving a few different software components wh

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
Hmmm this is an opportunity to display my ignorance and/or confusion, but my XOs usually just "find" each other on the mesh... a club the netbooks can't belong to... so back on the XOs I have to hunt and click on the wireless network for each one (making the other XO avatars disappear, etc). There'

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Gary C Martin
On 9 Jun 2009, at 23:33, Sean DALY wrote: > outside bugtracker > > I'm not aware of the existence of any 802.11s USB adapters which could > be plugged into a netbook for mesh. > > That said may be a silly question but I'm a bit mystified about > getting my meshed XO-1s to play with my SoaS netbook

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:33:12AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > outside bugtracker > > I'm not aware of the existence of any 802.11s USB adapters which could > be plugged into a netbook for mesh. Why would you want one? Most netbooks have one of 802.11{a,b,g}, which will serve Sugar use cases perfe

[Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
outside bugtracker I'm not aware of the existence of any 802.11s USB adapters which could be plugged into a netbook for mesh. That said may be a silly question but I'm a bit mystified about getting my meshed XO-1s to play with my SoaS netbooks, I have them join the same wifi AP but how to bridge