[Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 03:16, Andrés Ambrois<andresambrois at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:07:19 pm Martin Dengler wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:46:07AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
>> > There's another 'non-mesh' option possible for the '3 kids under a tree'
>> > case. They will likely have no AP/infrastructure to connect to, so
>> > blanking the jabber server is not an option. For them the existing
>> > local-link config would be very viable solution, but there's no Sugar UI
>> > for it yet.
>>
>> Would this be as simple as a "ad-hoc" device in the frame that put the
>> wireless into ad-hoc mode?
>
> http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/05/ad-hoc-wireless-networks-in-sugar.html
>
> As usual, Tomeu beat us all there :P

This is already in git HEAD, but the patch should apply cleanly to any
0.84 such as Soas. If people would like to give it a try and provide
feedback, would be awesome.

Regards,

Tomeu

>> Martin
>
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