Hi All, Does the Marvel chip have the capability to connect to standard 802.11a/b/g access points, or is that the issue raised here?
Scott On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 16:53 -0700, MBurns wrote: > > List: correct me if I am wrong. > > > > As far as I know, the best first step is an Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter > > [1]. They use the same Marvell chip that the OLPC uses, and it would > > stand to reason that a Linux+Marvell setup for the OLPC would work > > reasonably well in a generic Linux desktop machine with an Xbox > > adapter dongle. Any progress to this in would be very interesting. > > The XBox dongles, while also apparently 8388-based, don't actually work > with the driver or the firmware. We're not sure if there is additional > hardware in them, or if they have different Boot2 firmware that checks > signatures of the real firmware, or what. More experimentation and > possibly reverse engineering is necessary to figure out how to upload > firmware to the XBox dongles. > > The standard setup (for now) is an XO with a USB Ethernet dongle and the > internal 8388. Bring up the ethernet device, configure the msh0 > interface as AdHoc, give it an SSID, a channel, and an IP address, and > start the 'mpp.py' script. > > We'll be plugging 8388 USB dongles into larger servers, but these > dongles are Marvell reference boards and not suitable for production or > long-term use since they are not environmentally sealed, don't have RF > cans, and only have 1 antenna connection point. > > Dan > > > Any other ideas? > > > > [1] http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=xbox+360+wireless > > +adapter&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&hs=srf&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title > > > > On 3/27/07, Aaron Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry if this has been asked before, but... > > (I asked on irc) > > > > I am currently researching how to connect the 802.11s mesh > > points via > > portals the the net. So far I found no single PCI or any other > > card > > that you could plug into a normal linux PC/server. How are you > > people > > currently configuring a portal ? Do you plug in a USB ethernet > > device ? > > > > So, in other words: how to construct a 802.11s portal server? > > > > If this has been asked before, I would be very happy about > > pointers. > > > > thanks, > > aaron. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > > > > > -- > > Michael Burns * Security Student > > NET * Oregon State University > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
