802.11s portals

[scott at gnuveau.net]

Hi All,

Does the Marvel chip have the capability to connect to standard
802.11a/b/g access points, or is that the issue raised here?

Scott

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 16:53 -0700, MBurns wrote:
> > List: correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> > As far as I know, the best first step is an Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter
> > [1]. They use the same Marvell chip that the OLPC uses, and it would
> > stand to reason that a Linux+Marvell setup for the OLPC would work
> > reasonably well in a generic Linux desktop machine with an Xbox
> > adapter dongle. Any progress to this in would be very interesting.
>
> The XBox dongles, while also apparently 8388-based, don't actually work
> with the driver or the firmware.  We're not sure if there is additional
> hardware in them, or if they have different Boot2 firmware that checks
> signatures of the real firmware, or what.  More experimentation and
> possibly reverse engineering is necessary to figure out how to upload
> firmware to the XBox dongles.
>
> The standard setup (for now) is an XO with a USB Ethernet dongle and the
> internal 8388.  Bring up the ethernet device, configure the msh0
> interface as AdHoc, give it an SSID, a channel, and an IP address, and
> start the 'mpp.py' script.
>
> We'll be plugging 8388 USB dongles into larger servers, but these
> dongles are Marvell reference boards and not suitable for production or
> long-term use since they are not environmentally sealed, don't have RF
> cans, and only have 1 antenna connection point.
>
> Dan
>
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> > [1] http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=xbox+360+wireless
> > +adapter&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&hs=srf&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title
> >
> > On 3/27/07, Aaron Kaplan <aaron at lo-res.org> wrote:
> >         Sorry if this has been asked before, but...
> >         (I asked on irc)
> >
> >         I am currently researching how to connect the 802.11s mesh
> >         points via
> >         portals the the net. So far I found no single PCI or any other
> >         card
> >         that you could plug into a normal linux PC/server. How are you
> >         people
> >         currently configuring a portal ? Do you plug in a USB ethernet
> >         device ?
> >
> >         So, in other words: how to construct a 802.11s portal server?
> >
> >         If this has been asked before, I would be very happy about
> >         pointers.
> >
> >         thanks,
> >         aaron.
> >
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