[OLPC Networking] How to mesh network XO to Windows XP

[Aaron Kaplan]

On Mar 9, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Michael Vorburger wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to get IP going between the XO and a Windows XP box
> with mesh networking? Am I stupid, or this known to not work? Here is
> how I try:

short answer: you can allow sharing your internet connection on your  
win XP box and
therefore turn it into an AP + DHCP server.

>
> On the XO, click on Network 1 or 6 or 11 in the Neighborhood (tried
> all, none work) and watch the thingie on the Home go from "Starting a
> Simple Mesh" and then to "Connected to a Simple Mesh". An ifconfig
> msh0 shows the XOs' inet addr: 169.254.6.141 with Mask: 255.255.0.0.
that is the autoconfig addr when it does not get an addr from the  
dhcp server


> All nice and well.
>
> Now on a Windows XP PC laptop (ThinkPad X41 with I don't know what
> HW/driver, does that interest anybody?) I see an "olpc-mesh"
> Computer-to-Compter or Peer-to-Peer or whatever Windows calls it
nope, wil not work. windows xp does not support the 802.11s mesh in  
the XOs.
But it can act as an AP (see above).

> network. So far so good. I can connect to it, after about 30s or so
> "Acquire Network Address" goes to a "Connected". An ipconfig shows the
> PC's Autoconfiguration IP Address 169.254.61.94, Subnet Mask
> 255.255.0.0. Thank you very much.
>
> Self ping 169.254.6.141 on the XO works, self ping 169.254.61.94 on PC
> works, but the Windows won't get a ping 169.254.6.141 to the XO! Nor
> the other way around, ping the PC from the XO (see below). Tried this
> several times; no luck. Argh! ;-) Any ideas?
>
> BTW: The direction ping the PC from the XO does NOT work even if I
> have both of them on a home network WiFi access point - I'm assuming
> there is some outgoing ICMP filtering on the XO? No problem. I CAN
> however very well connect from the PC to the XO when both are on my
> home network WiFi access point, and SSH into it or get VNC
> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Remote_display) going.
>
> I'd like to be able to do e.g. the VNC thing to hook them via Mesh up
> for e.g. projecting the XO at demos!
>
> Regards,
> Michael
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