[Commotion-discuss] Commotion installation on Linux laptop

LuigiScop luigi.scopelliti at fastwebnet.it
Tue Jun 18 19:37:36 UTC 2013 

Everything at home which has a wifi interface can be connected and the 
network(built by 2 picostations) is working as ad-hoc network.
   If the fridge,the oven or the stove had a wifi interface, they would 
be connected to commotionwireless.net too.
    The only issue I have found is that if I try to access internet with 
the  linux laptop  using the ad-hoc interface of the AP router,I can't.
    But if I use the router AP as master ,I can.
    I red somewhere that this feature is not avalable for laptop. Please 
confirm.
    On the other end if I connect a local web server to the POE LAN port 
of one router, I can have access to the  web page also from the linux 
laptop through the  ad-hoc  interface     of the router(picostation).
    As a demo to show the capabilities of commotion solution I would 
like to implement a Server application.
    Which application  do you suggest first that can explain better the 
commotion solution capabilities?
    I need to recruit some people on ths project.

     Luigi

     ps.  I 'm pretty sure to be in Berlin on October for ISCWN

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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:11:02 -0400
> From: Dan Staples <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>
> To: commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: Re: [Commotion-discuss] Commotion installation on Linux
> 	laptop
> Message-ID: <51B5DE76.9070801 at opentechinstitute.org>
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> I honestly don't know what could have changed in the router firmware
> with a month that would suddenly cause it to work. We've been doing a
> lot of bug fixing over the last couple months, that it could have been a
> number of things. The 24/5 images on the website now are the stable
> images. Did you find out if the ad-hoc network was encrypted, indicated
> by iwinfo?
>
> Also, since you'll be much closer than us, you should consider coming to
> the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks this October in
> Berlin: wirelesssummit.org. The Commotion dev team will be there for sure.
>
> On 06/09/2013 04:16 PM, LuigiScop wrote:
>> Dan,Mikael,Andrew thanks for your suggestions.
>>
>> At the end It was possible to have the meshing between the 2
>> Picostations and my Linux laptop.
>> Everything is working now.
>> Here the steps I did.
>>
>> The first action was to verify if my laptop was supporting ad-hoc mode.
>> a) With "lsmod" I have  verified that the driver iwlwifi was installed.
>> b)With "lspci -v" I found the chipset of the wireless device:Intel
>> Centrino Advanced-N6200.
>> It easy to find that the ad-hoc mode is supported.Go to
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi
>>
>> c)I have investigated the second possibilty :if the router was
>> supporting the encryption and the nm-mesh-applet not.
>> So I followed the suggestion of Andrew on Commotion-discuss Digest,
>> Vol 9, Issue 6,and I tried to connect by olsr
>> olsrd -d1 -i wlan0 -f /etc/nm-dispatcher-olsrd/commotionwireless.net.conf
>>
>> and checking the encryption setting on the router and on my laptop(using scan).
>> I found several inconsistencies between the output of  the router web page and the laptop setting.And more ..
>> I don't want to report all the list of inconsistencies.
>> So I had the suspect that I was using an old release of the software.
>> I flashed the router with the available release on April 2013 .
>> For this trial I used the new ...openwrt-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-bullet-m-squashfs-factory.bin posted on 24/5/2013.
>>
>> With this release everything worked at the first attempt.
>> So it is up to you,now,to explain the main differences between the current  release and the 1 month old one.
>>
>> Luigi
>>
>> ps .To answer to Dan,I live in FANO http://www.fano.it/ and I'm try to involve some people to work on this very interesting project supported by Commotion.
>>
>>
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:32:04 -0400
>>> From: Dan Staples <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>
>>> To: commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Commotion-discuss] Commotion installation on Linux
>>> 	laptop
>>> Message-ID: <51AF9234.5030407 at opentechinstitute.org>
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>>> 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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>>>> 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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>>>>
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