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

[John Watlington]

On May 15, 2008, at 10:20 PM, Anna wrote:

> Thank you for the quick response, wad.  I should have emailed  
> earlier instead of wasting all this time.  At least I've learned  
> more about the networking setup.
>
>> wad:
>> What was the error when installing 163 ?   We want to know about  
>> these things!
> 163 installed just great at Glen Iris, actually.  The issue was  
> with my test platform (aka Frankenserver) here at my house.  It's a  
> 1999 Dell:  1 Ghz & 256 MB of RAM.  Far from ideal specs.  It does  
> run a public jabber server reasonably well, though, so I can't  
> complain too much.  When I tried to install 163 on it, I got the  
> usual I/O errors, but also Squashfs errors.  Not a good sign.  When  
> the install finally ran, it dropped out of the status screen after  
> a few minutes and started scrolling Cyrillic characters.  I let  
> that run for a couple of hours to see what would happen, then  
> finally lost hope and shut it down.  When I rebooted, it went  
> straight to a grub prompt.  I went ahead and put 161 back on, cause  
> I do have a few loyal users on my jabber server and I didn't want  
> to disappoint them.  If anyone wants to join in, send me an email  
> directly and I'll give you the IP.

Ouch.  That sounds familiar from early days of debugging the install.
It sounds like your Frankenmachine is a 586, and needs the restricted
kernel I put in build 161.  The next major release should probably
include a 586 version as well...

>> wad:
>> I don't think there is any way currently to run a (pseudo) 802.11s  
>> mesh with
>> OTS 802.11b/g hardware at this time, although the Open802.11s  
>> project is
>> working on that.   If you have OTS APs, just hook them up to the  
>> second NIC
>> and let the laptops connect that way.
> And here I was being so hopeful!  The XO even sees an "Unknown  
> Mesh" while it's searching for mesh portals, so I thought I was  
> close.  I have a regular AP on eth1 and the XO connects to that  
> just fine.  However, I can't do backups to the server, which is  
> what I wanted to test.  It's my understanding that the XO wants to  
> be connected to a School Mesh Portal Point to give the user the  
> option for backup to the server from the Journal.  If there's  
> another way to accomplish that, please let me know.

Good News and Bad News:
The good news is that nothing on the laptop cares whether it is using  
a regular AP or a mesh to connect to a school server.
The bad news is that backup is still being implemented...  It is on  
the high priority list for the next release of laptop software
(8.2, due out in August).   We have scripts that you can try with a  
school server now, for disaster recovery purposes.

> I'll send the request for the Active Antenna.  Maybe we can have a  
> special area in the school where users can connect to the  
> schoolserver mesh and do their backup tasks there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anna Schoolfield
> Birmingham