On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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? > > Yes, it does have the capability to do that (and the XOs are using that > capability). Whew! I thought someone had made a walled garden for a moment. > I believe the OP was asking about how people could > construct their own mesh portals that an OLPC laptop would use to > connect to the internet over mesh. Right now nobody outside OLPC can do > that because nobody has the USB dongle that the mesh-enabled firmware > runs on, and even though the XBox 360 wireless adapters are essentially > the same hardware, they don't work for some reason. > There is a similar chip in the sony psp, an 88W8010, for which there is a linux port currently underway (full framebuffer console + ir keyboard support at the moment, uclinux varient for mipsel w/o a mmu)... since we are playing with gaming gear:) Could potentially be a mesh node with a bit of work. > We only have USB reference dongles which aren't suitable for real use, > plus the fact that they are not in large production runs makes them > unsuitable for wide use anyway. We'll obviously have to figure out > something. > > Another solution would be to implement an 802.11s stack that understands > the XO's specific 802.11s implementation in the kernel's mac80211 > stack/framework that would run on any softmac card. That takes a bit of > work though :) > Indeed, but it appears well worth it. Thanks, Scott > Dan > > > 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
