Might have found a way to make an XO act as an AP
I did some digging around and asking on the olpc-devel irc channel and it looks like there is a driver and special "thin firmware" for the libertas chipset that supports AP mode. The guy that maintains the DebXO distro is having me test out a package that includes this new firmware. I will let you and him know about it as soon as I get a chance to test it. theres also instructions for getting the thin firmware working on the stock sugar, but it requires re-building the kernel with the correct options set.
(I will probably create a package for this if it all works out nicely under debian)
It will be so cool to be able to put an XO into AP mode. I've been making further improvements to the sync-up code and am working out some more bugs and timing issues. I also got my UNIX Network Programming 1st edition in the mail today as well.
What a wonderful history book to read from back in early 1990 when most of the world was not POSIX compliant, there were several competing network protocols with TCP/IP and some UNIX vendors were just getting around to getting ANSI compliant compilers (a lot of the examples are K&R style C but the sockets interface really hasn't changed much at all)
It deals a whole lot with interprocess communication and has some rally sophisticated examples and is very in depth. I know I'm going to learn a lot from it to make my project better.
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