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<br><div><div>On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Bhat, Ishwara wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I am trying OLSR on Dell 630 laptop and downloaded Broadcom linux driver for the same. I am running Fedora core 9.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I have an ad hoc network of 2 laptops, one with windows and the second with Linux. When I begin, I am able to ping the windows laptop from Linux. Once I run OLSRd, even then it works. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">But now I start running GUI (built from olsrd/gui/linux-gtk ). Now if I ping windows laptop it says host unreachable. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></blockquote>olsrd/gui/linux-gtk does not (yet) understand the LQ extensions AFAIK.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">After 1 hour when I tried, it started pining normally.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">OLSRd GUI seems to corrupt something ? </span></font></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div>thanks for the report. </div><div>As said, since that was not used to my knowledge in the funkfeuer/freifunk networks where most current developers are situated, probably not so much attention was given to </div><div>the secure plugin as well as the linux-gtk GUI. The linux GTK GUI is missing the LQ parsing code.</div><div><br></div><div>We usually take different packages for visualizing the network: dot_draw, http_info or txtinfo plugin. These are usually more practical although for sure not yet perfect.</div><div><br></div><div>HOWTO: <a href="http://www.olsr.org/?q=node/26">http://www.olsr.org/?q=node/26</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope the explanation helped.</div><div><br></div><div>Patches are of course - as always welcome</div><div><br></div><div>(BTW: mille gracias Alina!! - just reading thru the v6 patch now... (and bernd was faster ) :))) </div><div><br></div><div>a.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>