[Commotion-discuss] Commotion installation on Linux laptop

Wed Jun 5 18:55:30 UTC 2013

Ignore commotion-mesh-applet for a moment and just try to connect using
olsr. That will at least tell you whether you're meshing.

Using the settings you used before, run the following:
olsrd -d1 -i wlan0 -f
/etc/nm-dispatcher-olsrd/profiles/commotionwireless.net.conf

Substitute your machine's wifi interface for wlan0 if necessary. You
might need to use iwconfig to tweak your bssid (02:CA:FF:EE:BA:BE) and
channel. The -d flag will show debug information, including current
neighbor list.

Incidentally, olsrd is actually called from nm-dispatcher-olsrd
(https://github.com/opentechinstitute/nm-dispatcher-olsrd), so you might
use that to determine how your interface is being configured, then see
if it's breaking down at commotion-mesh-applet.

-andrew

On 06/05/2013 01:18 PM, LuigiScop wrote:
> Here the status of my activity to connect a PC Linux laptop to the mesh
> network constituted by 2  Picostation and the laptop itself.
> Your suggestion are welcome,here.
> In this case I used" commotionwireless.net" BSSID.
> I had installed the Linux version using the latest repository available
> on commotion web site:
> 
> https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion-linux
> 
> Following the instruction I was able to add the Commotion-mesh-applet to
> the task bar.
> If I try to connect the Linux laptop to 1(one) Picostation no way to do
> that.
> BUT if I set the IP of my laptop to manual (static) like:
> 
> IP:5.135.151.248 (my computer IP adress)
> net mask:255.0.0.0
> gateway:0.0.0.0
> I was able to connect and I can see the olsrd running when I look at
> debug log file after  I launched the applet.
> The problem at the moment is that if I try to ping from the laptop to
> the picostation I get the message "host unreachable" like if no route
> was found to reach the picsotation.
> Now,looking at the olsrd group,some one has the same problem and it has
> been proposed to use another picostation or another node in the mesh(to
> have 3 node in the mesh at least).
> I'm going to try adding the third node.
> Is there any one who has exerienced the same issues?Any suggestion?
> Luigi
> 
> 
> 
>> Today's Topics:
>>
>>     1. Re: Commotion installation on Linux laptop (LuigiScop)
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:31:27 +0200
>> From: "LuigiScop" <luigi.scopelliti at fastwebnet.it>
>> To: <commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Commotion-discuss] Commotion installation on Linux
>>     laptop
>> Message-ID: <BDE02DA075924405B36759CAC8BA3546 at smallbusiness.local>
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>> Hi Dan,
>> I was already registered on the olsrd list and I have forwarded my email
>> also to them.
>> To be honest their answer was to contact you (Commotion).
>>
>> I think that my problem can be checked easily from you.
>>
>> More info about my problem.
>> The Ubuntu is  rel.13.04.
>>
>> This is what I had done.
>> After to run olsrd I tried  to connect my laptop to the Picostation 
>> using
>> the mesh network commotionwireless.net.
>>
>> The signal is very good but no connectivity exists .
>>
>> I tried with the ping command from my laptop but the IP address
>> 5.10..... of
>> the picostation is not recognized:unkown IP address.
>>
>> Therfore one of the possible reason of this,I guess, could be the error I
>> have got after thr olsr installation.
>> I have reported it to you in the previous email.
>>
>> On the other side if I use the picostation as AP and the laptop as client
>> everything is working.Also the WDS.
>> Also if I look at the two Picosatation as mesh nodes(see the picture)
>> everything works.
>>
>>
>> To summarize:
>> How can I make to work my 2 picostation and the linux laptop as  part of
>> meshed netowork ?
>>
>> I know that I'm not very precise and accurate, but if I have to do some
>> trials in order you can understand better what i'm doing, let me know.
>>
>> Luigi
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>     1. Re: Commotion installation on Linux laptop (Dan Staples)
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>> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:29:57 -0400
>> From: Dan Staples <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>
>> To: commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>> Subject: Re: [Commotion-discuss] Commotion installation on Linux
>> laptop
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>> Hi Luigi,
>>
>> Someone forwarded your question to the commotion-dev list, and some
>> folks have responded:
>> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/commotion-dev/2013-May/001397.html
>>
>> I'd recommend signing up for that list if you haven't yet, as it is
>> where we discuss the more technical aspects of Commotion.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Dan
>>
>> On Mon 20 May 2013 06:52:31 AM EDT, LuigiScop wrote:
>>> I 'm trying to run olsrd on my Linux ubuntu by following the procedure
>>> on https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion-linux
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I get the error:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> lscopelliti at lscopelliti-Latitude-E4310:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/olsrd start
>>> Setting mesh on 'wlan0' to channel 5:
>>>
>>>      attaching to 'commotionwireless.net' with BSSID '02:ca:ff:ee:ba:be'
>>>
>>> Turning off NetworkManager wifi control: done Setting up ad-hoc
>>> networking: Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate"
>>>
>>> (8B20) :
>>>
>>>      SET failed on device wlan0 ; Network is down.
>>>
>>> done
>>>
>>> Setting up IP address: done
>>>
>>> OLSR ad-hoc setup on wlan0 using commotionwireless.net on channel 5
>>> with IP 172.29.135.151
>>>
>>>      ad-hoc Cell BSSID: 00:00:00:00:00:00 olsrd already running, doing
>>> nothing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any help?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> luigi
>>>
>>>
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