**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Sep 07 02:59:57 2011 **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Sep 07 04:07:21 2011 Sep 07 08:53:42 hi blathijs Sep 07 08:56:12 blathijs: I read the bad news about the wifi-bridge in the fonera 2.0g... :( Sep 07 09:01:53 giuseppeg88: It's sucky, but I already spent days on finding out the problem, I can't spend many more trying to fix it (when it's not even sure that I can get it to work in the end) Sep 07 09:02:31 2.0g is also not so cooperative on the scanning department: RIght now, it kills all wifi connections when I attempt a scan, which is slightly sucky Sep 07 09:08:27 uao... yes it is "slightly" sucky... Sep 07 09:14:25 It's really very suck and something that needs to be solved to be able to offer scanning in the GUI on 2.0g at all Sep 07 09:14:46 but I'm not sure if I can get it to work... Sep 07 09:17:45 it is strange that an Atheros chipset gives these problems... Sep 07 09:19:18 giuseppeg88: According to blogic, the chipset is fairly old and doesn't do background scanning Sep 07 09:19:41 and for foreground scanning, the radio needs to jump channels, so I guess that's why it breaks Sep 07 09:20:12 I had hoped it would just continue after the scan, but apparently it just resets all connections or something Sep 07 09:27:07 mmm Sep 07 09:27:09 is the chipset the same as that used in the classic fonera? Sep 07 09:27:11 if so, with the old fonera you can scan the wireless networks without losing the connection (with the orginal fw + freewlan addon) Sep 07 09:28:34 yes, it is the same chipset: Atheros AR2315 Sep 07 09:29:53 Hmm Sep 07 09:31:21 http://paku.txt-nifty.com/photos/uploaded_01/080423_154060.jpg Sep 07 09:33:40 I'm looking around in the FreeWLAN code now :-) Sep 07 09:34:20 http://www.chpohl.de/fonera/webifdemo/cgi_bin/webif/status_qrm.htm Sep 07 09:34:58 ;) Sep 07 09:35:51 it's fantastic because it adds a LOT of feature in the old fonera Sep 07 09:36:55 Looks pretty fancy indeed Sep 07 09:38:40 I have created two wifi bridges with them ... and work perfectly since years! Sep 07 09:42:12 (well as having a complete management fonspot: logs about the active connections on the public WLAN, mail service, additional hostnames, MAC blocking...) Sep 07 09:44:06 giuseppeg88: When you say "wifi bridge", do you mean the same as the new wifi-bridge mode? Or are the networks separated by NAT? Sep 07 09:45:45 ops, I'm sorry... I meant wifi-repetaur (networks separated by NAT) Sep 07 09:47:03 It's still "bridging" in some sense, terminology is a bit imprecise in this area :-) Sep 07 09:47:42 yes :-) Sep 07 09:50:44 would be nice to implement some functions of these even in the fonera 2.0... Sep 07 09:53:52 giuseppeg88: Patches welcome! ;-) Sep 07 09:54:07 lol! Sep 07 09:57:44 off-topic question: do you know how I can get the value of the variable "hotspotcount" via ssh? http://trac.fonosfera.org/fon-ng/browser/trunk/fon/fonstate/files/etc/fonstated/HotspotCount Sep 07 10:12:09 giuseppeg88: from looking at that script, "uci show -p /var/state fon.state.hotspotcount" might work? Sep 07 10:13:05 yes!!! it works! Sep 07 10:13:11 thanks Sep 07 10:25:32 blathijs: in these days I looked at the source code of the Fonera Simpl... Sep 07 10:25:45 blathijs: there are many features included but not enabled... Sep 07 10:25:57 blathijs: one of these: the repeater mode... in the fw there is already the file ap_client! :) Sep 07 10:26:40 blathijs: I hope that the new fw will be released soon... Sep 07 10:27:05 giuseppeg88: I'm totally clueless about the release schedule of SIMPL, so I can only hope with you :-) Sep 07 10:32:21 blathijs: I think in the next fw there will be interesting new features: as reboot_timer; DDNS; status log; enabling/disabling fonspot and the repeater mode... I hope I am not mistaken... hopefully good Sep 07 10:32:30 ;) Sep 07 10:33:35 :-) Sep 07 10:39:25 blathijs: unfortunately I think there doesn't will be access via telnet... in the last firmware were removed all the files needed for it... (perhaps due to the limited space available) Sep 07 10:42:17 giuseppeg88: I think the SIMPL never had enough space for dropbear / busybox Sep 07 10:42:32 giuseppeg88: In fact, most of the development of the SIMPL firmware happens on a 2.0n I think Sep 07 10:44:35 blathijs: in the v4.0.1.4 it was present but disabled **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Sep 08 02:59:57 2011