Well, could someone point me to the kernel fix, which could solve the problem by backporting. That should be an interesting exercise. Regards, Ajay <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Anish Mangal <<a href="mailto:anish@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">anish@activitycentral.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 </div><div class="im">On 05/02/2012 07:59 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Ajay Garg <<a href="mailto:ajaygargnsit@gmail.com">ajaygargnsit@gmail.com</a>> > wrote: >> Good News. >> >> I managed to get this working (albeit via changes in sugar). >> >> The details are at :: >> <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/mainline/commit/4ac1a5300f4c43608b0f009a23d966d404a15632" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/mainline/commit/4ac1a5300f4c43608b0f009a23d966d404a15632</a> > >> > The patch seems fairly wrong to me. You are hiding the mesh icons > in sugar, but the mesh is active. Packet forwarding is still > happening. > > One of the top reasons we stopped using mesh is because it > saturates the RF spectrum, which is a bad thing to do when you have > many users in a small space (ie: in a school). > > You had the mesh disable trick working on F11, and (I assume) > happy users of that feature. With this, the feature is broken, but > you're making the UI look right... > </div>I agree. The *problem* we are trying to solve is not to have a pretty mesh-icon-free-UI (which is a side effect), but disable the mesh at a hardware level. This patch *won't* solve the problem, as it will still flood the air with packet forwarding. - From the discussion, it seems to me that the kernel level switch is present in 12.x.x onwards, but not so for 11.3.x. In 10.3.x(f11) we got lucky as we were able to avoid the race condition. I suggest we keep looking for a proper solution: * Can the kernel fix be backported (might require a lot of work) * Can we tinker with the udev, postresume scripts to have it 'just' working I have reverted the commit: <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/mainline/commit/20ef9a14dd55908aec6c04cf3edddc51004aabb0" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/mainline/commit/20ef9a14dd55908aec6c04cf3edddc51004aabb0</a> > cheers, <div class="im">> > > > m - -- Anish -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org/</a> </div>iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPoU9PAAoJEBoxUdDHDZVp+DAH/j/RUl6AarwSlz0oUGIuPa5b FxpFOwO6edA0Avd4Zv0/0x3FWlaAEHwkkyz6Vcsq3Px0lxecX0JgYrEgaXWJP4l0 YRBqROOBCzkVKxk7dEWZ003igZSGKbSmuRMlj4v4Qpv0yU9Tfi/GS3T1Q+r02B0o igF9XjmLT5lFcZ4U1e7vE/foU4f7Y5ugg/TON6u/Oh0GNF8bDdOSkY/xKhGlAkIf 72d1pSt03ypcQgUHy7mRhORj1rc1d1YCWiyZLv2iUXdR2OyR8qjukw2HjQ2Gu5ts DwTeumIy+QSF7fDIZkE83dErrmLJLUGvQ/4oqT50zhgI63o+/v8qBpa40XRo3bc= =KMS0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </blockquote></div>