Establishing a Mesh Portal

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It's not entirely automatic quite yet; we'll get a more automatic solution in place soon.

Requirements

  • A USB ethernet adapter
  • One OLPC laptop (XO)
  • The xo-mpp-server RPM

What to do

  • Boot up your XO
  • Switch to a virtual terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+F1), and log in as 'root'
  • Turn off NetworkManager, dhcdbd (the DHCP D-Bus daemon), and avahi
chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager off
chkconfig --level 2345 dhcdbd off
chkconfig --level 2345 avahi-daemon off
  • Set your init level to '3'; stopping Sugar and X from starting again.
nano /etc/inittab

find the line with:

id:5:initdefault:

and change the '5' to a '3' so it looks like this instead:

id:3:initdefault:
  • Plug the USB ethernet adapter into the XO
  • Reboot; type 'reboot' and press enter
  • Wait for the XO to boot to the login prompt, then log in as 'root'
  • Bring up the USB ethernet interface
ifup eth0
  • Install the DHCP daemon
yum -y install dhcp xo-mpp-server

You may have to try this command twice; yum sometimes runs out of memory doing dependency solving, and terminates before actually installing the RPM.

  • Turn on various services at startup
chkconfig --level 2345 network on
chkconfig --level 345 iptables on
chkconfig --level 345 dhcpd on
chkconfig --level 345 mpp on
  • Reboot; type 'reboot' and press enter

and it should all work

Further Reading

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