HOWTO: Get online at WSFII
UPDATE: It looks like the olsr-mesh didn't work out. The is the tnp-mesh around, also running olsr. Have a look at WirelessScan for more information.
Description
In order to join the mesh connect to the accesspoint with essid wsfii.org first to download olsr. It will autoconfigure your computer with DHCP and give you internet access. If you want to stick to that - fine. If you don't - nice - carry on...
We have a wiki-page with this information and other resources online:
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http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/WirelessNetworkAccess
That page may also contain new information - so if you get stuck somewhere, check it out.
It is a little more complicated to get into the mesh than just switch your machi ne on - but we hope that you will be impressed with the results. Go to the http://www.olsr.org website and download the olsr-client for your OS. Olsr.org supports Mac OS-X, Linux, Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, FreeBSD, NetBSD. If your machine runs Linux and has a Atheros WiFi Card please get the newest driver and compile it. The driver is notorious to confuse other cards that operate in ad-hoc mode. Also the Centrino Wireless is suspicious - on any OS. Sorry! That is not basically a mesh or olsr issue - our mesh is working in ad-hoc mode and sloppily implemented drivers can cause a lot of disturbance. Most wireless networks operate in Accesspoint mode and manufacturers developer neglect Ad-hoc mode. That is a pity, but we hope that will change in the future. If your driver causes trouble please resort to the accesspoint. And don't forget to complain at the manufacturer of your card...
Once you have downloaded and installed the olsr program configure your wireless interface to join the network with Essid (network name) olsr-mesh, channel 2, mode ad-hoc. Further you should have received a sticker with your IP-address. Please configure your interface accordingly in order to make it work.
On windows start the application called olsr switch. Select your wireless interface and check 'start'.
On Mac OS-X, install the olsr package. After installation, start the olsrlounge program in /Applications.
On Linux or BSD copy the olsrd.conf to /etc/ or launch
olsrd -f /my-configuration-file-is-here/olsrd.conf optionally followed by a -d 1 to display more verbose output.
quick details
Access Point Method
Network SSID: wsfii.org
You are allocated an IP address by DHCP - nothing to configure!
Mesh network
Mesh network SSID: olsr-mesh
Network IPs: allocated by sticker DHCP - find yourself one at the front desk.
The olsr network range is 172.16.0.0 / 16 (broadcast 172.16.255.255, netmask 255.255.0.0)
To use the mesh network you will need to have OLSR installed and configured on your machine.
Downloads: OLSR Clients.
Apple Mac OS X OLSR client -
http://www.fernsehsofa.de/olsr/ OLSR for other computers -
http://olsr.org/index.cgi?action=download
OLSR Configuration file examples