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Once configured with our firmware, an extender node will not start broadcasting an SSID until it is plugged into a home node because it must first get a mesh IP address. | Once configured with our firmware, an extender node will not start broadcasting an SSID until it is plugged into a home node because it must first get a mesh IP address. | ||
== | == Testing and Network Detection == | ||
If you flashed | |||
change root password | |||
passwd | |||
Once ssh'ed into the extender node, there are few files you can play around with, | |||
`/etc/config/wireless` sets the names of the SSIDs broadcast by the antenna, you may want to change the name of the ad-hoc interface so as to distinguish it from home node's ad-hoc network | |||
Trying changing it to something like "popplesopen.net-nod2nod", then reboot the extender node and check if you can see the new name in your network list. | |||
YNext, you my be curious what you can see with your antenna, to scan for other visible networks, ssh in to the extender node and run the following, | |||
iw dev mesh0 scan | grep SSID: | |||
This should return a lengthy list of SSID, if you can see another "pplsopen.net-node2node" SSID, you should be meshing with it automatically. | |||
If you'd like to view more info about the network you can see, you can pipe the output of the previous command to a log file like so, | |||
iw dev mesh0 scan > scan log | |||
Once you are done meshing around with your extender node make sure to reset the root password with passwd or reflash the router with the standard build of our firmware. | |||
Log into your home node via SSH, and tail <tt>/var/log/messages</tt> | Log into your home node via SSH, and tail <tt>/var/log/messages</tt> | ||