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 Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Tomeu, On 10 Jun 2009, at 10:18, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 03:16, Andrés Ambroisandresambr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:07:19 pm Martin Dengler wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at

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 Marting...@garycmartin.com 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

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

[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

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

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 netbooks, I

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 process

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 the mesh

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 server is

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 '3 kids