[Server-devel] XS on the XO 1.5

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> I was thinking (once again) about the possibility of running XS on a
> XO 1.5. On the XO-1 the built-in radio runs in the 802.11s mesh mode
> and serves out IPs via DHCP. Given that the 1.5 does not do 802.11s
> mesh, can't the radio instead simply work in adhoc mode and serve the
> same purpose? I am not sure what the limitations would be of adhoc vs
> mesh mode in terms of number of clients.

I don't believe adhoc uses gateways which would likely cause issues,
but from gnome you should be able to share the wifi and use it as a AP
which should issue IPs, GW etc.

Peter