Getting developer boards to talk to eachother.

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 22:49 -0800, MBurns wrote:
> (Wasn't sure if I should send this to networking@, devel-board@, or
> devel at . My apologies if this is the wrong choice.)
> 
> Problem: Mesh networking (dev board to dev board) does not work. Peer
> discovery, Mesh View, etc, does not seem to function. 
> 
> Scenario:
> * 2 a-test boards
> * both on build 133 (latest),
> * 2nd generation (the updated version) wireless card, 
> 
> Both boards are detecting an in-range wireless network (so they are
> functioning). The boards don't seem to self-assign themselves address,
> and putting them on the same 192.168.1/24 subnet didn't help either.
> Should this be an automatic thing, or is it a known issue?

Are you using WEP?  Are you creating an ad-hoc network or using an
existing infrastructure network?  How are you configuring the wireless
settings for the boards?

They won't self-assign an address automatically, and there are a few
NetworkManager bits necessary for automatic ad-hoc connections at
startup which is probably what people are looking for here.

Dan

> Any thoughts on what I might do to troubleshoot? I'm giving a talk to
> a Portland LUG on Thursday and would love to have them working for
> demonstrations. 
> 
> --
> Michael Burns
> Oregon State University
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