[Commotion-discuss] Commotion installation on Linux laptop

Dan Staples danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
Wed Jun 5 19:32:04 UTC 2013


Hi Luigi,

Sorry for taking a while to respond. There are two possibilities I can
think of why you might not be able to mesh with your laptop. The first
is that your wireless driver on your laptop simply doesn't support
ad-hoc mode; many do not, including my own laptop. Do you know what
chipset you are using? It would also help to see the output of "lsmod",
to see what drivers are loaded. You might want to also consider using a
USB wifi adapter that is known to do ad-hoc, such as the TL-WN821N:
http://www.tp-link.us/products/details/?model=TL-WN821N

The second idea is that, if you are using DR1 version of
Commotion-OpenWRT, then ad-hoc encryption is turned on by default, but
the nm-mesh-applet software currently does not support encryption. From
the router, can you give the output of "iwinfo wlan0-1 info"? You will
see whether encryption is turned on or not.

Dan

On 05/22/2013 09:31 AM, LuigiScop wrote:
> 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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> 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
>
> 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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