[Olsr-dev] 802.11s embedded help

[Spencer Johnson]

Are there a limited number of nodes allowed for 802.11s? i.e., a county-wide mesh network would not be viable? Perhaps the hub-and-spoke theory would work out better...

Spencer 

On Sep 15, 2011, at 3:15 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:

> Hi!
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> On Sep 15, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Spencer Johnson wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I'm trying to get a wireless adapter with 802.11s embedded, so it may still perform backhaul while the main cpu is in suspend mode. The only adapter (preferably USB) that I have come across is the Marvell 88w8388, found in the XO laptop and locked Xbox 360 wireless-g adapter. 
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> To the best of my knowledge this is the only such adapter. And it never really worked with OLPC's XOs either.
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>> Because there are no new hardware requirements for 802.11s, is it possible to use the XO 802.11s code (or something else?), perhaps recompile it (don't know how), and use it with another wireless adapter? 
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> Iff you want to go with 80211s, I recommend that you take a look at the linux open80211s implementation.
> (but that wont support meshing while the CPU is in suspend mode obviously).
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> So far for my experience,
> A.
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> PS: scalability is low with 802.11s.
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