[Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear

[John Gunkel]

2008/4/21 Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>:
> Hi,
>
>
>  On Tuesday 15 April 2008 19:11, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>  > what do we know about the possibility of connecting to our active
>  > antennaes with regular WiFi hardware, perhaps from OTS laptops using
>  > linux?
>
>  using ralink wireless chips its now possible to use 802.11s in software, see
>  http://open80211s.org/ - work on other chipsets is in progress.

hmmmm...

the AR525W is basically an embedded x86 box with a ralink miniPCI
card. I think I am going to do some digging here

>  Some openwrt developers (cc:ed) discussed last week to create an openwrt image
>  for popular routers which usbports, for ralink wireless sticks. (IIUC)
>
>  Has someone already tested the XO mesh with ralink sticks and open80211s.org?
>
>
>  regards,
>         Holger
>
>  http://open80211s.org/trac/wiki/HOWTO-0.2.1
>  This page explains how to set up a mesh network using open80211s and a Airlink
>  101 USB wireless adapter, Model:AWLL3026.
>
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