That's cool, I see that ath5k is on the list of drivers that support 802.11s
I wouldn't mind trying to do a fieldtest sometime this winter. On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Dennis Hollenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I have not tried this,but for those of us interested in playing > with mesh functions, Andrey Yurovsky, an open 802.11s mesh-list blogger, > writes: > > "The kernel shipped (on October 30th) with Ubuntu 8.10 (2.6.27) comes with > draft-802.11s enabled and mesh-capable b43 and zd1211rw wireless drivers. I > suggest that you try and make your own mesh if you have two or more PCs with > a b43-supported interface! The only prerequisite is building iw from source > as it's not packaged yet, but it's quite easy...". (the blog is > at http://andrey.thedotcommune.com/2008/11/mesh-networking-in-ubuntu-810.html) > > The 'open 802.11s' list is at http://open80211s.com/mailman/listinfo/devel > > Here's a list of b43 (43xx Broadcom chips) supported hardware: > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices, but there must be > others that support it, eh? > > Wanna mesh? > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
