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

[Andy Gunn]

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That makes sense to me Josh. Can you update the website / downloads
page with the proper image? I will need to update the installation
documentation and test again.


On 11/05/2014 10:55 AM, Josh King wrote:
> 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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Andy Gunn, Field Engineer
Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation
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