[Freedombox-discuss] Allied Efforts.

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Timur Mehrvarz
<timur.mehrvarz at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20.10.2011 02:59, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
>> We are also actively engaging in the IEEE 802.11 standards process to
>> get ad-hoc fixed (ask me if you need information about the problems
>> with using ad-hoc WiFi to form mesh networks)
>
> Are these radio related issues or are API's missing? Can you elaborate?

Android (even IcecreamCake) lacks APIs to access ad-hoc WiFi.
As a result, we need root access, and then we need to figure out how
to control the wifi chipset and associated drivers on any given model
of cell phone.  We have a paper coming out later in the year that
describes some of the foo we have had to do to generalise this process
as far as possible.

Paul.