#4805 BLOC Update.: OLPC laptops interfering with other 802.11b/g traffic

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#4805: OLPC laptops interfering with other 802.11b/g traffic
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  Reporter:  kimquirk  |       Owner:  mbletsas
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  blocker   |   Milestone:  Update.1
 Component:  wireless  |     Version:          
Resolution:            |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0         |  
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Comment(by jcardona):

 Replying to [comment:8 wmb at firmworks.com]:
 > Another Hacker's attendee - Dan Miller - adds:
 > (...) the Chaminade wifi worked flawlessly for me, once
 > I paid the $10 tythe.  I needed a good connection to do my OpenSim demo.

 Yet another indication that this is not a "medium saturation" but a
 problem on the AP side.
 We must know what equipment they were using, as we already have
 [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mesh_and_WDS#Interactions_with_xo.27s long list
 of Lazy-WDS related problems] that would explain those symptoms.

 In parallel to that, as a preemptive move, someone from OLPC should ask
 Linksys (Cisco)/Broadcom(*) more info about how their APs/wireless cards
 respond to WDS frames.  The xo's use standard WDS headers (i.e. conforming
 with IEEE Std. 802.11-2007, Sect. 7.2.2).  If that is causing denial of
 service or association losses they must clearly explain why so we can find
 a work around.

 (*) According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G this entry in
 wikipedia] the WRT54G uses Broadcom wireless modules.

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