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

[simon at mungewell.org]

> outside bugtracker
>
> I'm not aware of the existence of any 802.11s USB adapters which could
> be plugged into a netbook for mesh.
>

There is a project for 802.11s on Linux, which I believe is now in the
main kernel.
http://www.open80211s.org/

I have a device 'zd1211rw' which is partially supported, unfortunately the
documentation says that it has firmware bugs.

See:
http://www.open80211s.org/trac/wiki/HOWTO

and:
http://www.fruct.org/images/contentmedia/S4_n8xx_olpc_connectivity.pdf

Simon.