FON supporting mesh ?

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   > Anybody know anything more about the mesh support in the latest
>   > FON router ?  It is supposedly compatible with OLPC's mesh !
>
> Looking at the http://wiki.fon.com/wiki/La_Fonera_2.0 OLPC plugin
> tarball, it does this using libertas/usb8xxx and the firmware we
> redistribute, so it wouldn't be surprising that it's compatible.
>
> I don't understand what chipset they're shipping that can use that
> firmware, though -- it'd have to be the 8388, but the same page says
> Fon 2.0 uses an Atheros NIC.  I think maybe they're suggesting it'll
> work if you plug a USB 8388 part in..

It seems that way from their blog
http://blog.fonosfera.org/oktopussy-2-is-here-nice-bugfixes-and-the-very-first-ap-that-does-meshing-with-olpc/

Peter