[Commotion-dev] MeshTether

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 09/19/2012 11:33 AM, Teco Boot wrote:
> 
> Op 19 sep. 2012, om 17:09 heeft Hans-Christoph Steiner het volgende geschreven:
> 
>>
>> Hey Teco,
>>
>> For the first phase of MeshTether dev, we worked on getting it fully
>> working working on some devices.  I worked with HTC devices and a
>> Motorola Droid/Milestone, and those all work every time for me now.  The
>> next phase of the development will focus on getting it working on as
>> many devices as possible.
> Did you test with 4.x?
> It seems harder on newer stuff.

Only a little.

>> The next step to getting the Wolfgang AT-AS28D working is figuring out
>> first what the problem is.  You can get a lot of info from the Info tab.
>> The easiest way to check whether adhoc got setup correctly is to
>> compare the "wifi settings".  The first block of settings is what the
>> app is trying to set,
> This looks fine.
> "ahr"
> (my BSSID)
> (my IP address)
> (my subnet)
> 
> (my DNS, 8.8.8.8)
> (olsrd.conf path)
> 
> 
>> the second block is what was read from the wifi
>> driver.  
> Then, the wifi info:
> SSID: null
> BSSID: null
> ip: 0.0.0.0
> MAC: (ok)
> speed 0 Mbps
> RSSI: -200dBm
> (last two for last node? entries for all neighbors?)

The nulls mean that the adhoc settings didn't stick.  That's usually the
problem.  It seems HTC kept the wifi/wpa_supplicant very stock while
other vendors like Samsung decided to customize their wpa_supplicant and
wifi a lot.

>> If they are not the same, that means adhoc setup failed.
> Or joining the network failed. It sends beacons with something that looks OK. Maybe if stayed down, because there is no peer station.
> I'll test more, with focus on the beacon and probe messages. It looks like wrong formatted and ignored by my other nodes. 
> 
> Can I assume you tested with phones and OpenWRT boxes?

I mostly tested with phones, but I usually also had a ubiquiti box there
running Commotion OpenWRT providing the HNA route to the internet.

>> Which BSSID field is numeric only?  I can type numbers and letters into
>> the BSSID field in the Settings just fine on my phone.
> I used cut&paste.
> I have a numeric keyboard, with greyed alfa (ABC on 2, DEF on 3, etc).
> I can use some special characters, for dailing.

Which phone is this?  This is the Wolfgang one?  Can you switch to a
querty keyboard?  I've never seen a T-9 touchscreen keyboard on Android.
 The BSSID is setup to use a custom DigitsKeyListener that includes more
characters:

editText.setKeyListener(DigitsKeyListener.getInstance("0123456789ABCDEFabcdef:-."));

I guess your keyboard just sees DigitsKeyListener and disables the all
the letters.  As a workaround for now, you can make profile files with a
text editor on your computer, and put them on your SD card.

https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion/wiki/Profiles_for_MeshTether

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