[Testing] Test meeting minutes, 7/9/07

[Michail Bletsas]

Kim,

That's the piece that everybody keeps missing.
When you have a scenario like John's, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO RELY ON ANYTHING ELSE to get the laptops to talk with each other.


M.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Kim Quirk" <kim at laptop.org>

Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:58:35 
To:"Zack Cerza" <zcerza at redhat.com>
Cc:Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>, testing at laptop.org,       John Fuhrer <John_Fuhrer at brown.edu>
Subject: Re: [Testing] Test meeting minutes, 7/9/07


Zack,
Ok. I think you are missing one thing: One of the XOs has to be connected to an AP or with a USB-Ethernet dongle connected to your internal network. This XO will then provide a mesh network for the others.

 So try that, then see if you get a mesh circle in the neighborhood view. After that, the other XOs should be able to connect to that mesh network. If it doesn't work right away try rebooting the other XOs.

Keep me posted. 

Kim




On 7/10/07, Zack Cerza <zcerza at redhat.com <mailto:zcerza at redhat.com> > wrote: Kim Quirk wrote:
> Zack,
> When you say you can't get the mesh working, can you be specific about
> what you are trying to do?

This is four XOs sitting in my cube in Westford, with no AP connection. 
Pure mesh, all the way. Except nobody can see each other. All are
running 494 with firmware 18.


> Here, in Cambridge, we have a school server that is supplying the mesh
> MPP. The laptops come up and find that mesh and sometimes even see each 
> other (there is a bug about the intermittency of seeing others on the
> mesh).

Hmm... maybe there's something special about the school server...

> Also, at home I was able to connect to an infrastructure access point 
> with a WEP key (after entering the WEP key 2 times); and have no issue
> browsing the web.

Good to hear that APs work; haven't tried that yet.

> The new feature, where an XO connected to an infrastructure access point 
> and becoming an MPP hasn't been tested by John F. or me at this point...
> is that what you are doing?

I hope to try this once I can get the laptops to at least see each other
over the mesh.
 

Zack

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