no pomegranate icon

[Nathan Aguiar]

from what i have googled i need to click the pomegranate icon to configure the mesh network, but i have no such icon. In fact my desktop looks nothing like everything i see in tutorials. when i boot from the cd, it says porteus and i see no mention of byzantium past the first boot option screen.
plz help

[Ben Mendis]

Which CD or ISO are you using? Where did you get it from?

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Nathan Aguiar <nathan...@gmail.com> wrote:

    from what i have googled i need to click the pomegranate icon to configure the mesh network, but i have no such icon.  In fact my desktop looks nothing like everything i see in tutorials.  when i boot from the cd, it says porteus and i see no mention of byzantium past the first boot option screen.
 plz help

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[Nathan Aguiar]

I have .5b I got it from the project byzantium site.  It was a torrent magnet link

[Ben Mendis]

Regular or Hybrid?

[Nathan Aguiar]

Tried both, same thing

[Ben Mendis]

In v0.5b the old control panel (the thing the pomegranate icon pointed to) was removed.

When you boot up, do you see a Byzantium desktop background?
Did a browser window pop up telling you that your node was online?

If so, that's all you need to do. You're done.

If you want, you can confirm the configuration is working by opening a terminal and verifying that 'olsrd' is running and that your wireless card is in the correct mode.

$ ps aux | grep olsrd

$ iwconfig

Once you have another node up and running, they should automatically find each other, and then you can confirm by checking the route table to see the other node.

$ route -n

[Nathan Aguiar]

Great, I'll check it out..  thank you so much for your time...  another quick question,  do you know if android phones with span's software on it will be able to communicate with the network since they are using the same protocol?

[Nathan Aguiar]

Nothing happens when I type that in terminal

[Ben Mendis]

I don't know much about SPAN, but Android is a tough nut to crack. There is a long-standing issue in the Android issue tracker (known as Bug 82) that prevents Android devices from connecting to IBSS (Ad-Hoc) wireless networks, which is a prerequisite for this type of mesh networking on 802.11 networks.

Google seems to be aware of the issue, and for reasons they have never commented on are intentionally blocking Ad-Hoc support on Android devices. We have no idea what their motivation is for deliberately and explicitly preventing devices from participating in Ad-Hoc networks.

Had we not been so burnt out after the ISC grant, there were some ideas floated among the team on ways to address this gap. We never got there.

[Ben Mendis]

Could you be more specific? Do you get an error message, or not the correct output, or not output at all?

[Nathan Aguiar]

Nothing just moves down a space when I hit enter then nothing

[Nathan Aguiar]

I have 3 phones on a mesh ad-hoc network with span so i thought i could possibly add some nodes with this...  thank you

But i have attached a photo of what happens when i type ps aux in terminal. .  That is the only thing that does anything when typed

[Nathan Aguiar]

And this is the desktop

[Nathan Aguiar]

I think I was to impatient because the ipconfig command now does this

[Ben Mendis]

That looks correct for iwconfig, but I'm not sure why you have a white desktop background. That's pretty strange.

[Nathan Aguiar]

I am gonna see if I can see the network from another device...  thank you for your help