[Commotion-discuss] Commotion firmware for ubiquiti picostation2 hp

[Frank W Baker II]

Thank everyone for the help. I am able to run openwrt. As soon as I get home I will let you know the error I receive. Again thanks so much!!!!!

Thanks,

Frank W. Baker II
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On Sep 6, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Dan Staples <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> 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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