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

[Adam Steele]

The testing continues. I let OpenWRT build things overnight (I need a
faster build box) and got a working kmod-ath5k. Got that installed on my
four RouterBoards and cards started showing up.

One hiccup I've had is that the automatic gateway detection doesn't work on
the RB433/RB433AH (which has a WAN port and 2 LAN ports). When left to
"auto" mode the RB433/AH will never hand out DHCP leases to LAN
clients (Wireless or Ethernet). I'm guessing the vlan/switch isn't setup
properly but I haven't looked at it yet. For now I've just set it to always
hand out leases.

Another problem I've been chasing down is evidently a faulty 2.4GHz card.
When I turn it on it destroys the 900MHz mesh (the 900MHz cards are
technically 2.4GHz cards with transverters, so they can be susceptible to
strong 2.4GHz interference). ETX will go from 1.000 to a minimum of 2.500,
with many links being >4. Not exactly sure how this single card is bringing
the mesh to a halt, that will be tomorrows task.

-Adam

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Andy Gunn <andygunn at opentechinstitute.org>
wrote:

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> I think that makes sense, as long as the file doesn't change very often?
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> Can we link directly to the proper file on the Downloads page? We can
> put a footnote in at the bottom of the MikroTik table that this file
> comes from OpenWRT.
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> On 11/05/2014 11:29 AM, Josh King wrote:
> > Sure, I can do that. Though in this case, I think it makes the
> > most sense just to remove the netboot image from the downloads page
> > and update the documentation to direct them to download it from
> > OpenWRT's website, unless you think there's a need to mirror the
> > file.
> >
> > On 11/05/2014 11:00 AM, Andy Gunn wrote:
> >> 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
> andygunn at opentechinstitute.org | 202-596-3484
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