[Freedombox-discuss] Allied Efforts.

[Timur Mehrvarz]

>> On 10/20/2011 07:04 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> Here are some new 'IcecreamCake' specific API's:
>>
>> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/p2p/package-summary.html
>>
>> http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/WiFiDirectDemo/index.html
>>
>> "Android now supports Wi-Fi Direct for peer-to-peer (P2P) connections
>> between Android-powered devices and other device types without a hotspot
>> or Internet connection. The Android framework provides a set of Wi-Fi
>> P2P APIs that allow you to discover and connect to other devices when
>> each device supports Wi-Fi Direct..."
>>
>> Sounds useful, doesn't it?
> 
> It sounds useful, and may well be in some instances, however WiFi
> Direct is only for 1-to-1 communication.  It does not allow the
> formation of a multi-hop mesh.
> 
> Paul.

If you get multiple ad-hoc 1-to-1 links for free, do you still need root?

Timur