[Commotion-dev] Nature of Commotion download links on website?

Paul Gardner-Stephen paul at servalproject.org
Tue Aug 27 18:46:54 UTC 2013


Thanks -- I have gone back to the 12.09 release of OpenWRT and all is
better.

Should we file a bug with them do you think?

Paul.


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Dan Staples <
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> On 08/26/2013 07:05 AM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> > we can certainly update the site with images of our stable builds for
> > commotion openwrt. Are you also asking for stable releases of openwrt,
> > sans commotion?
> >
> >
> > Paul Gardner-Stephen <paul at servalproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > It would be great to have pre-built stable releases of openwrt
> > somewhere, as I have been bitten a few times by the ephemeral nightly
> > builds of openwrt, and would like to avoid having to build everything
> > myself.
> >
> > On that note, and related to the hostapd bugs recently discussed, can
> > one of you throw me a "good" hostapd package?  I am finding that the
> > latest builds of openwrt have a nasty bug that shows up especially when
> > we have two mesh extenders in wifi range of each other.  I want to see
> > if hostapd is to blame.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Chris Ritzo <critzo at chambana.net
> > <mailto:critzo at chambana.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sun 25 Aug 2013 08:56:49 PM EDT, Dan Staples wrote:
> >     > On Sun 25 Aug 2013 01:33:51 PM EDT, Ben West wrote:
> >     >> Hi All,
> >     >>
> >     >> I'm checking back in on this thread to confirm the nightly build
> bot
> >     >> for Commotion-OpenWRT is no longer running.  (Or never was?)
> >     >>
> >     >> A gentleman asking me about problems he's been having using images
> >     >> dated 8/23/13 had me a bit confused, since the latest stable
> images
> >     >> are still dated 5/24/13.  I think he had been trying to build his
> own
> >     >> firmware, hence the recent date.
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Dan Staples
> >     >> <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
> >     <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>
> >     >> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
> >     <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>>> wrote:
> >     >>
> >     >>     The links in the Stable section should be pretty static until
> >     we hit a
> >     >>     new release, at which time they will change. We don't have
> >     the nightly
> >     >>     builds occurring at the moment, however.
> >     >>
> >     >>     On Wed 12 Jun 2013 04:27:22 PM EDT, Preston Rhea wrote:
> >     >>     > Some folks are interested in adding direct download links
> >     in the
> >     >>     user
> >     >>     > documentation for installing Commotion-OpenWRT:
> >     >>     >
> >     >>
> >
> https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion/wiki/Stock_Ubiquiti_Install_Guide
> >     >>     >
> >     >>     > Are the links that show up on the download page always the
> >     same,
> >     >>     or do
> >     >>     > they change with every nightly build or new stable release?
> >     >>     >
> >     >>     > I'm looking especially at the portion of, say,
> >     >>     >
> >     >>
> >
> https://code.commotionwireless.net/attachments/download/357/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-bullet-m-squashfs-factory.bin
> >     >>     > that is /download/***/openwrt.... does that change with
> every
> >     >>     new code
> >     >>     > push?
> >     >>     >
> >     >>     > --
> >     >>     > Preston Rhea
> >     >>     > Program Associate, Open Technology Institute
> >     >>     > New America Foundation
> >     >>     > +1-202-570-9770 <tel:%2B1-202-570-9770>
> <tel:%2B1-202-570-9770>
> >     >>     > Twitter: @prestonrhea
> >     >>     > _______________________________________________
> >     >>     > Commotion-dev mailing list
> >     >>     > Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
> >     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net>
> >     >>     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
> >     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net>>
> >     >>     > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/commotion-dev
> >     >>
> >     >>     --
> >     >>     Dan Staples
> >     >>
> >     >>     Open Technology Institute
> >     >>     https://commotionwireless.net
> >     >>     _______________________________________________
> >     >>     Commotion-dev mailing list
> >     >>     Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
> >     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net>
> >     >>     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
> >     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net>>
> >     >>     https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/commotion-dev
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >> --
> >     >> Ben West
> >     >> me at benwest.name <mailto:me at benwest.name> <mailto:me at benwest.name
> >     <mailto:me at benwest.name>>
> >     >
> >     > Yeah, he must have been building his own, b/c AFAIK no images have
> >     been
> >     > uploaded to the website since the DR1 release.
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     > Dan Staples
> >     >
> >     > Open Technology Institute
> >     > https://commotionwireless.net
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> >     >
> >
> >     Dan is correct, Ben. We hope to re-enable nightly builds as soon as
> we
> >     can. We'll either place nightly builds on the downloads page or on a
> >     separate page, with stable release images on the current page.
> >
> >     -Chris
> >
> >     -
> >     Chris Ritzo
> >     Technologist, Open Technology Institute
> >     New America Foundation
> >     _______________________________________________
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> >     https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/commotion-dev
> >
> >
>
> Paul, we ran into the hostapd badness a few weeks ago, and so we pinned
> our OpenWRT revision to @36682, and the openwrt package feed to @36537,
> both known-working revisions to around the time AA was declared stable.
> Maybe give that a try.
>
> See:
> https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-openwrt/blob/master/setup.sh
>
> https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-openwrt/blob/master/feeds.conf
>
> --
> Dan Staples
>
> Open Technology Institute
> https://commotionwireless.net
> OpenPGP key: http://disman.tl/pgp.asc
> Fingerprint: 2480 095D 4B16 436F 35AB 7305 F670 74ED BD86 43A9
>
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