[Commotion-dev] Boilerplate Android code pushed

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hey Brian,

I briefly checked out your code, I'll dig in more soon.  Did you get ad-hoc mode running after all?  I assume so since you said you got olsrd running.  Apparently, on some devices, you have to replace the wpa_supplicant binary in order to get ad-hoc mode working:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929865

Cyanogenmod seems to include everything needed to run ad-hoc though.

I just found this, which looks like it should provide us with some useful code:
http://code.google.com/p/adhoc-on-android/

On approach that might work for us is to include our own custom wpa_supplicant in the app.

.hc

On Jan 10, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Brian Duggan wrote:

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> Hi Commoters,
> 
> I've been doing some preliminary work on getting olsrd to work in a
> user-friendly way on Android. The first challenge is creating an ad-hoc
> interface. Google doesn't support this, and doesn't look like they will
> support ad-hoc because they feel WiFi Direct is functions as a
> replacement. See bug 82:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82
> 
> I pushed some code to the redux branch of the commotion-android
> repository. It's half code, half comments describing what will need to
> be done to automate the entire process of creating an ad-hoc interface
> the Android Way.
> 
> It doesn't address current olsrd incompatibility with some Android wifi
> drivers, namely the dhd driver. To date, I've only been able to get
> olsrd to run stably on devices using the bcm4325 driver.
> 
> Check it out, if you're interested:
> 
> git clone -b redux git://git.chambana.net/commotion/commotion-android
> 
> The master branch is still an Android Wifi Tether overlay, but will get
> olsrd up and running on bcm4325 (and other non-dhd?) devices. Some
> testing would be appreciated here. It would be great to start probing
> which devices olsrd works on and which don't.
> 
> Thanks!
> Brian
> 
> - -- 
> Brian Duggan
> Technologist
> Open Technology Initiative
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