Conundrum - XO connected to AP + Mesh?

Ben Lau xbenlau at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 10:01:33 EST 2008


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Ricardo Carrano <carrano at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2008/11/24 Ian Daniher <it.daniher at gmail.com>:
>> Hello all,
>> I've been asking on #olpc-devel the last few days, trying to figure out how
>> to connect my XO simultaneously to both a mexh network and to an AP.
>> My goal is to have the same XO able to surf the internet and ssh into meshed
>> XOs. Whether or not this XO acts as an MPP, providing other XOs with
>> internet, is irrelevant. I hope to do this as simply as possible via
>> terminal. I'm guessing there's some magic recipe of ifconfig and iwconfig
>> commands, but no one seems to know what it is.
>> My goal is to do this without network manager.
>> Any help you're able to give me would be wonderful.
>> Many thanks!
>> --
>
>
> It should work. Please check if the other XO (not connected to the AP)
> is in the same channel of the AP.
> Say your AP is in channel 6, the other XO should be set to mesh 6.
>
> Cheers!
> Ricardo
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What if the AP use channel number like 3?



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