Thanks for the info Guys! I think that it would be a good Idea to publish an open design for a simple mesh node (that used only off the shelf components) that would act as a repeater. Chances success of the XO, would be greatly improved if they could connect to other meshes such the Meraki networks, nbased on MITs roofnet technology.
Flavio On 3/16/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 23:04 -0400, Andrew Clunis wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 08:22 -0300, Flavio Coelho wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am no expert in wireless networking, so forgive me if I say > >> something stupid. ;-) > >> > >> Regarding the network interoperability, Dan mentions (see below) that > >> 802.11b/g routers could participate in the mesh after a firmware > >> upgrade. > > > > Somebody would have to do the work to implement the quasi-802.11s > > support for OpenWRT/ddwrt/etc, but if that got done the technically they > > could be used to extend the mesh. > > That's assuming that hardware is thin enough that bcm43xx could be > hacked to support 802.11s... > > (NB: openwrt, ddwrt, et al still use the proprietary Broadcom driver) Right; that's the problem. I doubt it would work on those distros without a lot of work. Basically, if you want an XO mesh interoperable device that's _not_ using the Marvell Libertas 8388 chipset, you need full access to the driver source, and if the device is a fullmac chip, the firmware sources too. I'd imagine most softmac cards would be much easier to deal with because the smarts are in the driver, not the firmware. Dan > - -- > Regards, > Andrew Clunis > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFF+gktALkUMXSNow8RAskkAKCx0Jn5RG6GwuiCdf6fflVY+aU08QCfZaIB > CsjgQrff3XGAt0gG8fG5E6M= > =apVy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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