[Commotion-dev] Compiled images for ath5k, ar71xx, pending support ticket about periodic snapshot builds

[Ben West]

Hi All,

I updated the compiled images for ath5k and ar71xx I made after some
further testing yesterday.  These images are compiled from the
commotion-openwrt repo as it existed on 5/18/12.
http://info.gowasabi.net/commotion-openwrt/openwrt/

Recently flashed nodes seemed to complain about missing OLSR plugins,
and I wasn't sure if they were required for operation.

(I had thought I filed an issue on Redmine @
https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion-openwrt/issues
asking if commotionbase missing some declared dependencies, but it
looks it may have gone missing.)

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Ben West <me at benwest.name> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In aftermath from Friday's hackathon, here are recent compiled
> Commotion-opewrt images for ath5k and ath9k targets, including the
> .config files I used and images for UBNT M and Buffalo devices:
> http://info.gowasabi.net/commotion-openwrt/openwrt/
>
> I have so far successfully flashed these devices, and afterwards
> telnetted into 192.168.1.20 to configure them:
> - a really crusty old FON2100 (openwrt-atheros-root.squashfs and
> openwrt-atheros-vmlinux.lzma)
> - UBNT Nanostation Loco M2
> (openwrt-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-nano-m-squashfs-factory.bin)
> - UBNT Bullet M2 (openwrt-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-bullet-m-squashfs-factory.bin)
>
> After telnetting into each device to set a root password, I rebooted
> them.  All 3 nodes are now meshing w/ each other (can ping / ssh
> between them), confirming basic operation of both the ath5k ad ath9k
> drivers.
>
> Do note the ath5k images DO NOT have any luci packages compiled into
> the images, but are available as separate *.ipk files at the URL
> above.  I did this since the FON has only 16MB RAM, and just the bare
> image w/o the web UI leaves less than 1MB in free RAM.  Newer ath5k
> devices like the Open Mesh OM1P and Engenius EOC-1650 should have at
> least 32MB RAM to handle the web UI.
>
> Finally, leading from discussion on IRC, I added a support ticket
> requesting periodic (e.g. nightly or weekly) snapshot builds located
> on the code.commotionwireless.net server for popular targets like
> ath5k and ar71xx.
> https://code.commotionwireless.net/issues/308
>
> --
> Ben West
> me at benwest.name



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Ben West
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