[Commotion-discuss] Commotion firmware for ubiquiti picostation2 hp

[Dan Staples]

I would guess these are the images to try: 
http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/atheros/generic/

On Fri 06 Sep 2013 10:29:39 AM EDT, Ben West wrote:
> Aha, my only experience with the ath5k-generation UBNT radios was the
> Nanostation and Bullet, which only had 16MB of RAM.
>
> Anyhoo, the Picostation 2HP would correspond to the "atheros" platform
> (aka ath5k driver) under OpenWRT, and it will not run the ar71xx
> images at all.  You would need to compile Commotion-OpenWRT for the
> atheros platform.
>
> Also, I can furthermore confirm the current generation of OpenWRT
> Attitude Adjustment has something wrong with its kernel-level GPIO
> support that prevents images from booting on atheros platform, at
> least on the Engenius and Open Mesh radios I've tested.  The
> OpenWRT-devel community hasn't devoted any effort to fixing this (and
> they possibly won't, due to these devices' age).
>
> I've no idea if the broken GPIO support also prevents OpenWRT AA from
> booting on Picstation 2HP.  You may need to try flashing AA (i.e.
> regular OpenWRT, not Commotion-OpenWRT) on the device first to see if
> it boots.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce at gmail.com
> <mailto:griffinboyce at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/06/2013 09:58 AM, Ben West wrote:
>     > If memory serves, and you are not referring to a Picostation 2M, the
>     > Pico 2HP is an ath5k-based radio like the FONera.  However, I
>     believe
>     > it only has 4Mbytes of flash and 16Mbytes of RAM.  Commotion-OpenWRT
>     > wouldn't be able to run on this device at all.
>     >
>     > I've compiled older versions of Commotion-OpenWRT for atheros
>     platform
>     > to run on Engenius EOC-1650 and Open Mesh OM1P, albeit with several
>     > ugly patches to work-around missing GPIO support (i.e. the
>     status LEDs
>     > don't work).  Although, I do not have any recent images handy.
>
>     The 2HP has 32mb of RAM and 8mb flash size with some kind of Atheros
>     chipset, so hopefully it will able to run Commotion.[1]
>
>     ~Griffin
>     [1] http://dl.ubnt.com/pico2hp_ds.pdf
>
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