[Commotion-discuss] Initial results of installing on unsupported Routerboards

[Josh King]

It may make sense for us just to update the documentation to recommend
using the stock netboot image rather than our own. Although Commotion
can run in 32 MB of RAM, it does make sense that that amount of memory
might not be able to hold the netboot filesystem, all of its Commotion
processes, AND the install image. Since there's no real reason that the
netboot image has to be Commotion, it could save some trouble.

On 11/05/2014 10:20 AM, Josh King wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/04/2014 11:09 AM, Andy Gunn wrote:
>> Hey Adam - thanks for the note about this. We might need to modify our
>> installation instructions for the RB411 - we only have a RB411/AH in
>> house, so we didn't catch that problem. I will make sure to get some
>> vanilla 411 boards to test.
>>
>> Glad to hear the 433 boards are working. One bug we have noticed about
>> the MikroTik radio cards is that dual band cards only show 2.4GHz in
>> the Commotion setup wizard. There is an issue in on this:
>> https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-router/issues/149
>>
>> Keep us posted on the MikroTik testing!
>>
>>
>> On 11/03/2014 09:30 PM, Adam Steele wrote:
>>> I've spent the evening tinkering around with Commotion and getting
>>> it installed on Mikrotik devices other than the RB411AH (since I
>>> don't own one).
>>
>>> So far I've tried the RB433, RB433AH and RB411.
>>
>>> No trouble with the RB433 or RB433AH. Installed and running. I've
>>> not poked around enough to determine stability but it seems to be
>>> all there.
>>
>>> The RB411 was a bit harder. The issue with the device is that it
>>> only has 32MB of RAM. When trying to install the usual way it runs
>>> out of RAM during the wget2nand process. The stock
>>
>>> My work around was to boot the stock OpenWRT image and wget2nand
>>> from there with the Commotion kernel/rootfs files. Again, I've not
>>> poked around enough to figure out if Commotion will be stable on
>>> only 32MB RAM but I'll find out and report back.
>>
>>
>>> -Adam
>>
>>
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