[Commotion-discuss] Commotion installation on Linux laptop

Wed Jun 5 17:18:32 UTC 2013

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

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>     1. Re: Commotion installation on Linux laptop (LuigiScop)
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> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:31:27 +0200
> From: "LuigiScop" <luigi.scopelliti at fastwebnet.it>
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> Subject: Re: [Commotion-discuss] Commotion installation on Linux
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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>
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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.
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> cheers,
> Dan
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> 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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