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 here: xo-mpp-server-0.1-1.noarch.rpm (srpm here
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
You may have to try this command twice; yum sometimes runs out of memory doing dependency solving, and terminates before actually installing the RPM.
- Copy the xo-mpp-server RPM onto the XO and install it:
rpm -Uhv xo-mpp-server-0.1-1.noarch.rpm --force
- Turn on various services at startup
chkconfig --level 345 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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