right source

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon May 28 23:33:36 EDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 18:41 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got libertas-2.6 from git, compiled and booted new kernel and module 
> (I use fw 5.220.10.p5) on gentoo.
> I also have two laptops that are already in mesh. I set the gentoo box 
> to the right channel and set the MAC as follows:
>  
> ifconfig eth3 down hw ether 00:17:C4:28:0A:F1
> ifconfig eth3 up
> ifconfig msh0 10.0.0.1
> 
> then the gentoo box is setup exactly like the two laptops, except that 
> the msh0 interface is in "Repeater" mode instead of the echoed "ad-hoc" 
> in the laptops.
> 
> The two laptops ping each other fine, but the gentoo box cannot ping the 
> laptops.

What's the output of:

ifconfig msh0
route -n

Dan

> Any ideas?
> 
> Luis Carlos Cobo wrote:
> > On 5/25/07, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <ypod at mit.edu> wrote:
> >> I'm trying to get mesh working on a USB module from marvell on a Gentoo
> >> host.
> >>
> >> I got git://git.infradead.org/libertas-2.6 but this is "repeater"
> >> dedicated version of the driver.
> >
> > That's the version you probably want to use.
> >
> > It just says it's in "repeater" mode because there is not a defined
> > "mesh" mode. Previously the mode for the mshX interface was  an echo
> > of the mode for the ethX interface, and that caused some confusion.
> > Looks like I didn't succeed in avoiding that confusion...
> >
> 
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