[Server-devel] Permissions in /sys/class/net/msh0

[Anna]

Hi All,

I've been at this for days now and am only emailing out of desperation.  
I'm on server build 161 (the 163 install didn't work on my hardware), 
though I enabled the testing repos to get what I hope is closer to 163.

Anyway, I finally managed to trick the server into seeing a msh0 
device.  I've got 3 NICs - eth0, eth1, and msh0.  I put HWADDR=<mac 
address> for the third NIC in the ifcfg-msh0 files.

Now that I've got /sys/class/net/msh0, the olpc-mesh-script wants to run 
at boot.  Which is great!  But, something's the matter with the 
permissions.  On boot, when it tries to echo 1 > 
/sys/class/net/msh0/anycast_mask, permission is denied.  I can't even do 
it manually.

I'm guessing there's a udev rule somewhere that needs to be edited or 
added.  Any ideas?

The reason I'm doing this is to try to see if I can get a school mesh 
portal point to work with off the shelf hardware.  If anyone has an 
easier way to do that or can point me towards the documentation, I would 
be grateful for any assistance.

Anna Schoolfield
Birmingham