On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 20:54, John Gilmore <g...@toad.com> wrote: >> On Oct 20 2009, at 19:04, Tabitha Roder was caught saying: >> > no mesh network showing in neighbourhood >> >> My understanding is that mesh is not currently supported in the >> WLAN firmware for the new chips. I am not sure what the plan of >> action is in regards to mesh support for 1.5. > > For laptops to communicate when they're nearby, no mesh is needed. > The usable range will be shorter than with a mesh, but on the positive > side, XO's should be able to communicate with every kind of device, > not just themselves. > > But I don't know if NetworkManager and Sugar are fully organized to do > "Ad Hoc" networking, presence, messaging, file sharing, etc in the > absence of an access point. > > The "mesh channels" in the GUI could be converted to "ad hoc" > channels, unless ad-hoc WiFi networking has a protocol for searching > all the channels for nearby machines. (Channel-less operation would > be simpler for users -- one less setting.)
Sugar 0.86 can ask NM to create an ad-hoc network, and the patch is easily backportable to 0.84. http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/05/ad-hoc-wireless-networks-in-sugar.html Regards, Tomeu -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel