[Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear

[john at phrozen.org]

Hi,

i am about to contact the developer of the open80211s kernel patches  
to see what his status is, looks like the drivers are for zydas wifi  
sticks (not ralink) i just compiled his kernel tree with mesh support,  
but will have to wait till i get home on the weekend to dig out a usb  
stick with the chipset and then test it with my XO. also there is a  
ticket in the open80211s trac(or whatever he uzses) to add support to  
the b43 driver, so i'll see if mb___ can help him out with that one.

if this goes well, it will be a matter of 1-2 days to add a  
profile/feed to the openwrt tree to provide images that support this  
feature.

i'll send an update when i have news

John



Quoting John Gunkel <jgunkel at gmail.com>:

> 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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