As you may be aware, Intersil's Prism 2/2.5/3 chipsets have a mode
where most of the 802.11 work is done by the host computer, rather than
by the card firmware. This has allowed Jouni Malinen to write the
hostap driver, which implements an access point on typical device
hardware, including some WDS-based AP-AP mesh functions.
<br><br>I speculate that a similar approach might be used to implement
the pseudo-802.11s mesh networking of the XO on a Prism card, such that
a school server could be implemented on already available hardware,
without an active antenna. <br><br>Has anyone considered this sort of thing previously? <br><br>I know that the OLPC is based on the (unpublished) 802.11s spec, but that it's also not exactly the same because of some limitation of the Marvel chips. Is there good documentation somewhere for the protocol, as implemented, that someone else could follow?
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<a href="http://hostap.epitest.fi/" target="_blank">http://hostap.epitest.fi/</a><br><br>