Hi All,<br><br>W/r/t to driver support for adhoc + multiple VAPs, I've been fiddling with an Ubuntu VM guest and a TP-Link TL-WN722N USB radio. I've been able to get the TP-Link to broadcast the adhoc mesh + public VAP using Commotion-OpenWRT as a VM guest, so maybe Ubuntu can be coaxed similarly.<br>
<br>However, considering that the known working ath9k driver for TP-Link is from compat-wireless-2012-0907 and newer, it could also be that the driver provided even with Ubuntu Quantal is still too old.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Dan Staples <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danstaples@opentechinstitute.org" target="_blank">danstaples@opentechinstitute.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I suppose it's all dependent upon the wireless driver supporting ad-hoc.<br>
We've had enormous difficulty getting our Asus netbooks to do ad-hoc.<br>
<br>
Will this network manager also ethernet interfaces to join a mesh? How<br>
about if the computer has multiple wireless interfaces, such as a USB<br>
wireless device?<br>
<br>
And I think at the moment we only have the <a href="http://commotionwireless.net" target="_blank">commotionwireless.net</a> profile<br>
to work from.<br>
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On 02/18/2013 10:55 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:<br>
> I'm pretty sure I figured out the Ubuntu/quantal issue: that machine has a<br>
> binary blob wifi driver that does not handle adhoc well at all... hopefully<br>
> this is not a common scenario.<br>
><br>
> .hc<br>
><br>
> On 02/18/2013 09:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:<br>
>> Ok, I've done a bunch more testing, and have it reliably working on two Linux<br>
>> Mint/Maya aka Ubuntu/Precise machines. I have been testing on a<br>
>> Ubuntu/quantal machine, and its NetworkManager seems to ignore the channel and<br>
>> hardcoded BSSID, so it tries repeated on channel 1 and fails. arg...<br>
>><br>
>> Right now, it includes a pre-configured NetworkManager connection for<br>
>> '<a href="http://commotionwireless.net" target="_blank">commotionwireless.net</a>'. Are there any other mesh profiles that should be<br>
>> included by default?<br>
>><br>
>> .hc<br>
>><br>
>> On 02/15/2013 01:18 PM, Dan Staples wrote:<br>
>>> That's excellent. I'd like to try it out in our Commotion-OpenBTS live<br>
>>> images, since they are based on Ubuntu.<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 02/14/2013 02:21 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:<br>
>>>> Hey all,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I got the core of my 'dispatcher script' NetworkManager integration working,<br>
>>>> its called 'nm-dispatcher-olsrd' for now. It uses the very simple<br>
>>>> 'dispatcher' script API to launch a python script in respond to network<br>
>>>> changes (interface up/down), then that python script talks to NetworkManager<br>
>>>> over dbus to get the whole picture. It then parses any profiles that are in<br>
>>>> /etc/nm-dispatcher-olsrd and if a new wifi connection matches one of the<br>
>>>> profiles, it sets up olsrd properly.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> The profiles are the same format as the MethTether profile, and the<br>
>>>> nm-dispatcher-olsrd Ubuntu packages I created include a profile for<br>
>>>> <a href="http://commotionwireless.net/02:ca:ff:ee:ba:be/channel" target="_blank">commotionwireless.net/02:ca:ff:ee:ba:be/channel</a> 5. So if you are within range<br>
>>>> of another <a href="http://commotionwireless.net" target="_blank">commotionwireless.net</a> node, you should just be able to install<br>
>>>> nm-dispatcher-olsrd, click <a href="http://commotionwireless.net" target="_blank">commotionwireless.net</a> in the NetworkManager wifi<br>
>>>> browser panel applet, then have working OLSR mesh!<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> To try this on Ubuntu/Mint and probably Debian, do:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guardianproject/commotion<br>
>>>> sudo apt-get install nm-dispatcher-olsrd<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Here are the repos:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Ubuntu packages:<br>
>>>> <a href="https://launchpad.net/~guardianproject/+archive/commotion" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~guardianproject/+archive/commotion</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> sources:<br>
>>>> <a href="https://github.com/eighthave/nm-dispatcher-olsrd" target="_blank">https://github.com/eighthave/nm-dispatcher-olsrd</a><br>
>>>> <a href="https://github.com/eighthave/python-networkmanager" target="_blank">https://github.com/eighthave/python-networkmanager</a><br>
>>>> <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyjavaproperties" target="_blank">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyjavaproperties</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Coming soon:<br>
>>>> * a panel applet to represent the status of the mesh<br>
>>>> * hopefully more automation of profiles<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> .hc<br>
>>>><br>
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