[Mesh] [wlan-si dev] Re: TDMA for OpenWrt devices

[Marc Juul]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent at otvorenamreza.org>
wrote:

> My plan is to see how Netshee TDMA driver works in real life, I'll put
> it to work on one point to multipoint link.
>
> And also see I can get their firmware to just load openwrt packages
> for olsr and babel, and it if all works together. There could be some
> issues because they use their own wireless stack.
>
> If it all works I would suggest we start using this TDMA driver (which
> is really mature, and in use for over 5 years with lots of users) and
> then migrate over time to FreeBSD TDMA if/when it becomes available
> and more stable. Currently it doesn't even work for most atheros
> devices, latest updates broke lot of stuff (I have a freebsd briend
> who is really interested to get tdma working with freebsd and ar9331
> but he can't, and keeps me updated).
>
> Has any of you tested TDMA firmware from these Russian guys (NETShe)?
> They have been developing this TDMA stack for over 5 years and got it
> quite polished from what I can gather.
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > So, ther is also:
> >
> >> russian company called NETSHe is offering OpenWrt images with TDMA
> >> driver support for free for some devices (they have some restrictions
> >> in free version):
> >
> > http://netshe.ru/files/NETSHe-3.0/
>

Wait are they distributing binaries of their TDMA-enabled driver but
withholding the source code? Am I misunderstanding something or are they
blatantly violating the GPL?

Should we contact the SFLC about the violation and see if they can put some
pressure on them to publish the code?

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marc/juul
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