[Freedombox-discuss] Non-profit Group Releases Open Source Mesh WiFi Network Software

[Sameer Verma]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Tony Godshall <togo at of.net> wrote:
>> Seen on LWN (https://lwn.net/Articles/455207/), a group is implementing
>> the 802.11s WiFi standard. Project page is here:
>> http://www.open80211s.org/trac. Maybe people already in the mesh networks
>> here can tell if it is interesting.
>
> If you'd actually read their home page you'd see this:
>
> "open80211s has been accepted in mainline Linux kernel and is included
> in  release 2.6.26...."
>
> In other words, it's already in your favorite distro.
>
> If your chipset is supported, you can try it.  Then you can say "this
> works for me with distro d chipset c" or "I had to do x or y to get
> this to work" instead of "have you heard of this?"
>
> T
>

You can also get a USB wireless device with the supported drivers and
try it out if your built-in chipset doesn't support it. The ZyDAS
driver-based USB dongles are fairly cheap at $15 or so, the last time
I checked.

http://o11s.org/trac/wiki/HOWTO

cheers,
Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Professor, Information Systems
San Francisco State University
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