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

[Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos]

cerebro (http://cerebro.mit.edu) will also extend mesh networking on 
windows soon.

Oliver Mattos wrote:
>
> Is there any interest in creating a hardware/firmware/driver/software 
> solution for 802.11s on Windows?  If 802.11s is going to become well 
> used windows support will be vital, and it would be really novel for 
> open source to be the first to develop a technology.
>  
> Even if not open source, are there any commercial companies looking 
> into that?
>  
> I asked this question months ago and got no real reply, so I was 
> wondering if the situation had changed.
>  
> Thanks
> Oliver
>
>  
> On 3/9/08, *Aaron Kaplan* <aaron at lo-res.org <mailto:aaron at lo-res.org>> 
> wrote:
>
>
>     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
>     <http://169.254.6.141/> with Mask: 255.255.0.0 <http://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
>     <http://169.254.61.94/>, Subnet Mask
>     > 255.255.0.0 <http://255.255.0.0/>. Thank you very much.
>     >
>     > Self ping 169.254.6.141 <http://169.254.6.141/> on the XO works,
>     self ping 169.254.61.94 <http://169.254.61.94/> on PC
>     > works, but the Windows won't get a ping 169.254.6.141
>     <http://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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Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
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