[Sugar-devel] OLPC mesh support in Sugar-0.84

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> On 05/20/2010 08:32 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>> On 05/19/2010 04:18 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
>>> A few months ago I finished off getting the OLPC mesh working again in
>>> Networkmanager and Tomeu finished off the work on the Sugar side. It's
>>> present in master and presumably 0.88.
>>>
>>> However, it hasn't been backported to 0.84 (I thought it had, but was
>>> mistaken). Anyone looking for a very valuable (and quite
>>> straightforward) project of large value to XO1 users and deployments?
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>
>> As I have been working on the default adhoc networks feature lately I
>> will go for it. I will have to see how they can coexist, but is of
>> interest anyhow as mesh did land in 0.88 and default adhoc networks
>> should land in master, too.
>>
>> Regards,
>>      Simon
>
> I have been thinking about how the "olpc mesh network" and the "default
> adhoc network" can coexist.
>
>  From a user point of view, I think the features can be exclusive. If
> the mesh hardware is available we use the mesh code and draw the three
> mesh icons in the neighborhood view. If the hardware is not available we
> fallback to the "ad hoc network" code and make that available through
> the three icons in the neighborhood view.
>
> What do others think about that?

Does this preclude a pair of OLPC XO-1.0 machines from joining an
ad-hoc network formed by other machines (since they'll have meshed
with each other by default)?

-walter
>
> Regards,
>    Simon
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