open80211s on the XO 1.5

[Andrey Yurovsky]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> I have two OLPC XO 1.5 B2 machines
> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_1.5_B2).  Here is what I get.
>
> [olpc at localhost ~]$ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30_xo1.5-20091009.1746.1.olpc.69c8c87
> #1 PREEMPT Fri Oct 9 17:53:38 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
>
> [olpc at localhost ~]$ lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 0409 (rev 03)
> 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 1409
> 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 2409
> 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 3409
> 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 4409
> 00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 5409
> 00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 6409
> 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 7409
> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 5122
> 00:0c.0 SD Host controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. SDIO Host Controller (rev 10)
> 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev a0)
> 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev a0)
> 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 90)
> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 8409
> 00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 South-North
> Module Interface Control
> 00:14.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC]
> (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 20)
>
> lsusb
>
> [olpc at localhost ~]$ lsusb
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>
>
> I've tried the following based on directions in the HOWTO.
>
> [olpc at localhost ~]$ iw dev wlan0 interface add mesh type mp mesh_id 123456789
> nl80211 not found.
>
> Any ideas?

Hi Sameer.  o11s mesh is a part of mac80211 and therefore will work on
network interfaces that use the mac80211 stack.  The
currently-supported drivers are listed here:
http://o11s.org/trac#DriverStatus
or you can see them on the Wireless wiki under the "mesh" column:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers

  -Andrey