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

[Adrian Chadd]

I could do with all the help testing the freebsd tdma code on 5ghz 11n APs. :P



-adrian


On 31 August 2015 at 15:47, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I do not think you will get far with copyright infringement against a
> Russian company. ;-)
>
>
> Mitar
>
>> 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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