On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Michael Renzmann <mrenzmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Is Orbit still an option for our testbed plans? > > Absolutely, even for the "madwifi" driver, anything the team needs. In > fact I've extended the offer to use the grid to OpenBSD and FreeBSD > too. Although I don't work there fulltime I'm still part of Orbit and > will be managing their "open source" accounts. I intend on eventually > getting a test plan done but of course test stuff is always last > priority on the list of things to do :(. At OLS2008 Dan Williams > showed interest in this too. > > I should mention that most of my desires to test software are now > resolved through mac80211_hwsim driver -- mac80211 can be thoroughly > tested using this, so the grid/sandboxes are useful for real driver > testing and for experiments. > > I have a 2.6.27 based image there now (baseline-8.9-dev.ndz), and > compat-wireless available from /usr/src/, with the git tree used > through autofs (which is updated daily), so to update the drivers and > install them all you have to do run the compat-wireless > admin-update.sh and then compile and install. > > Testing AP for example on ath5k is ideal here too as the nodes on > Sanboxes are hooked up together through attenuators directly. Note > that there are two wireless cards on each node, and the sanboxes have > two nodes. Each wireless cards is paired up with the other one on the > other node in a sandbox. Anyway if you'd like an account let me know. > > PS. Testing mesh should be possible now too using the > baseline-8.9-dev.ndz (2.6.27 based) and updating compat-wireless. BTW you can now request an account here: http://www.orbit-lab.org/register For organization select "Linux Wireless Networking" Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
