[Commotion-dev] Commotiuon Linux Installation

Tue Jan 7 16:48:25 UTC 2014

I'd be interested to read about the new IP addressing scheme, too.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Dan Staples <
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> Luigi,
>
> About the IP addresses, we have changed our IP addressing schema for the
> latest release. We are no longer using
> 5.x.x.x/101.x.x.x/102.x.x.x/103.x.x.x subnets. Instead, we are using the
> 100.64.0.0/10 address space for the mesh network, and 10.0.0.0/8 for the
> all client networks. I am hoping we'll put out a longer statement soon
> about the reasoning behind this decision and what it will mean in terms
> of compatibility.
>
> Dan
>
> On 01/04/2014 01:37 PM, Jordan McCarthy wrote:
> > Hi Luigi,
> >
> > Thanks for getting in touch!
> >
> > A.  On the commotion-router side of things, I suspect that the reason
> > the sysupgrade pathway didn't work is that a great deal of
> > under-the-hood wiring associated with configuration files changed
> > significantly, such that the configuration files that are retained
> > during a sysupgrade were deemed to be invalid by the newly-flashed OS.
> > Did you try to "keep configuration files" during the sysupgrade, by any
> > chance?
> >
> > B.  The problems you encountered during the Linux client installation
> > were entirely my fault: I just realized that the packages provided on
> > the website were severely out of date.  I've just updated the core
> > packages (commotion-linux-py, nm-dispatcher-olsrd, and
> > commotion-mesh-applet) to the versions that are known to be compatible
> > with R1 of commotion router.  I'll need to check in with a few other
> > folks to make sure that everything else is as up-to-date as possible,
> > but those three core packages should be enough to get you fully
> > connected to an R1 mesh.
> >
> > Thanks again for your interest in Commotion, and please let us know how
> > the rest of the install goes!
> >
> > < Jordan
> >
> > On Saturday, January 4, 2014 11:39 EST, LScop
> > <luigi.scopelliti at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Here some issues and questions after the "Grumpy Cat" upgrade.
> >
> > A)I have installed the new "Grumpy Cat" on my two of my Ubiquiti
> > Picostation M2.
> >
> > 1)I have used the sysupgrade.bin file by using the administrator
> > interface to upgrade the DR1.
> > The procedure didn't work on both devices.
> > 2)I have installed the firmware again using FactoryInstall.bin.
> > Everything works now.Great!!
> > Is there any explanation why the procedure 1) didn't work?
> >
> > B)Commotion LINUX.
> > Here the OS info installed on my Linux Laptop:3.8.0-19-generic
> > #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:16:28 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> >
> > I'm following the installing instructions in the README.txt file
> > As expexted I get some errors after the first command.
> >
> > After the command
> >
> > sudo apt-get install -f
> > I get the error
> >
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/commotion-linux-py.postinst: line 2: pip: command not
> > found
> > dpkg: error processing commotion-linux-py (--configure):
> > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status
> 127
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > commotion-linux-py
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > Then,after the nxt command:
> >
> > sudo dpkg -i *.deb
> > I get the error:
> >
> > Setting up commotion-linux-py (0.2-1) ...
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/commotion-linux-py.postinst: line 2: pip: command not
> > found
> > dpkg: error processing commotion-linux-py (--install):
> > subprocess installed post-installation scrip t returned error exit
> > status 127
> >
> >
> > Any suggestion?
> >
> > C)Mesh -IP assignement in R1"Grumpy Cat".
> >
> > I see new mesh-IP assignments,like,for example 100.74.84.52 for the
> > router,where  84 and 52 are the 2 last decimal numbers of the mac
> > address.In the previous it was 5.x.x.x...
> >
> > 74??
> >
> > How this has impact on manual setting the  new  mesh IP-address on
> > devices like laptop,smartphone?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your support
> >
> > Luigi
> >
> >
> >
> >
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