28 Apr
2012
28 Apr
'12
11:56 p.m.
Hi!
Ubiquiti provides OpenWrt based SDK for their firmware. To my
information, it contains some proprietary madwifi-based WiFi drivers
with some older OpenWrt version. My question is how it would be
possible to run Batman on top of their firmware (thus not latest
OpenWrt). As Batman is in kernel, is is enough kernel-backwards
compatible to be able to run also on older (2.6) kernel versions? For
olsrd it is much simpler: you just install olsrd package and this is
it.
Mitar
29 Apr
29 Apr
7 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 01:56:02 +0200, Mitar wrote:
Hi!
Ubiquiti provides OpenWrt based SDK for their firmware. To my
information, it contains some proprietary madwifi-based WiFi drivers
with some older OpenWrt version. My question is how it would be
possible to run Batman on top of their firmware (thus not latest
OpenWrt). As Batman is in kernel, is is enough kernel-backwards
compatible to be able to run also on older (2.6) kernel versions? For
olsrd it is much simpler: you just install olsrd package and this is
it.
batman-adv supports old kernel versions starting from 2.6.29.
What kernel is exactly provided with that firmware?
I know about someone else which still maintain compatibility with much older
kernels, but I don't know the state. By the way keeping backward compatibility
with older kernels is really difficult..
Cheers,
--
Antonio Quartulli
..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
7:30 a.m.
On Sunday 29 April 2012 09:00:02 Antonio Quartulli wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 01:56:02 +0200, Mitar wrote:
The oldest kernel supported by Marek's patches is [1] is 2.6.21. Ubiquiti uses
something like 2.6.15 [2] (so more or less from the stone age; please correct
me in case they ported the stuff to a newer kernel).
My personal recommendation: When you see somebody that real thinks that a over
six year old, not-maintained-anymore kernel is the way to go: run away.
The oldest kernel we support is over three years old (not maintained anymore
since 2 1/2 years) and the one supported by Mareks patches 5 years old (not
maintained anymore since 4 1/2 years). These are also not real young and fresh
and will be dropped as soon as there is any big problem in maintaining
backward compatibility. The supported versions that will hopefully not go away
so fast are 2.6.32 and 3.2.
Kind regards,
Sven
[1]
http://git.open-mesh.org/?p=marek/batman-adv.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/co…
[2] https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2010-April/002519.html
Hi!
Ubiquiti provides OpenWrt based SDK for their firmware. To my
information, it contains some proprietary madwifi-based WiFi drivers
with some older OpenWrt version. My question is how it would be
possible to run Batman on top of their firmware (thus not latest
OpenWrt). As Batman is in kernel, is is enough kernel-backwards
compatible to be able to run also on older (2.6) kernel versions? For
olsrd it is much simpler: you just install olsrd package and this is
it.
batman-adv supports old kernel versions starting from 2.6.29.
What kernel is exactly provided with that firmware?
I know about someone else which still maintain compatibility with much older
kernels, but I don't know the state. By the way keeping backward
compatibility with older kernels is really difficult.. 
8:27 a.m.
Hi Mitar,
what Ubiquiti products are you using? Because they have the older
802.11a/b/g based product series and the newer 802.11n based with their
proprietary Airmax wireless drivers. I am asking because the Airmax
products have been upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 recently. Integrating
Batman would be much easier now. Unfortunately the SDK is only available
on request since some time.
Regards,
Franz
Am 29.04.12 01:56, schrieb Mitar:
Hi!
Ubiquiti provides OpenWrt based SDK for their firmware. To my
information, it contains some proprietary madwifi-based WiFi drivers
with some older OpenWrt version. My question is how it would be
possible to run Batman on top of their firmware (thus not latest
OpenWrt). As Batman is in kernel, is is enough kernel-backwards
compatible to be able to run also on older (2.6) kernel versions? For
olsrd it is much simpler: you just install olsrd package and this is
it.
Mitar
2:29 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:27 AM, fboehm <fboehm(a)aon.at> wrote:
Hi Mitar,
what Ubiquiti products are you using? Because they have the older
802.11a/b/g based product series and the newer 802.11n based with their
proprietary Airmax wireless drivers. I am asking because the Airmax products
have been upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 recently.
Indeed,
XM.v5.3# uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.15-5.2 #1 Fri Jan 14 14:43:07 EET 2011 mips unknown
XM.v5.5# uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.32.54 #1 Fri Apr 6 14:56:27 EEST 2012 mips unknown
(run on two nano loco m900, the latter with latest firmware)
30 Apr
30 Apr
4:28 p.m.
According to Ubiquiti support the SDK for AirOS v5.5 will be released in
a few weeks.
Regards,
Franz
Am 29.04.12 16:29, schrieb Guido Iribarren:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:27 AM,
fboehm<fboehm(a)aon.at> wrote:
Hi Mitar,
what Ubiquiti products are you using? Because they have the older
802.11a/b/g based product series and the newer 802.11n based with their
proprietary Airmax wireless drivers. I am asking because the Airmax products
have been upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 recently.
Indeed,
XM.v5.3# uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.15-5.2 #1 Fri Jan 14 14:43:07 EET 2011 mips unknown
XM.v5.5# uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.32.54 #1 Fri Apr 6 14:56:27 EEST 2012 mips unknown
(run on two nano loco m900, the latter with latest firmware)
5:21 p.m.
Hi!
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:27 AM, fboehm <fboehm(a)aon.at> wrote:
what Ubiquiti products are you using?
Rocket, NanoBridges, Bullets. Probably we will use all types sooner or
later. :-)
I am asking because the Airmax products
have been upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 recently. Integrating Batman would be
much easier now.
Great!
Unfortunately the SDK is only available on request
since
some time.
I do not see this a problem. You request, you get, you distribute. GPL. :-)
Mitar
7:56 p.m.
I would be very interested in this, especially if the GUI is patched to do you can enable
batman-adv on an interface from there.
I would point out that airos doesn't support ad-hoc mode in the GUI and doesn't do
ad-hoc on airmax interfaces.
On Apr 30, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Mitar <mmitar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:27 AM, fboehm <fboehm(a)aon.at> wrote:
what Ubiquiti products are you using?
Rocket, NanoBridges, Bullets. Probably we will use all types sooner or
later. :-)
I am asking because the Airmax products
have been upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 recently. Integrating Batman would be
much easier now.
Great!
Unfortunately the SDK is only available on
request since
some time.
I do not see this a problem. You request, you get, you distribute. GPL. :-)
Mitar
1 May
1 May
10:32 p.m.
Hi!
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Dan Denson <dandenson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would be very interested in this, especially if the
GUI is patched to do you can enable batman-adv on an interface from there.
We will very probably just remove the whole GUI and have things
configured through image generation process.
I would point out that airos doesn't support
ad-hoc mode in the GUI and doesn't do ad-hoc on airmax interfaces.
We are using Ubuquiti equipment for backbone ptp links.
Mitar
6 Aug
6 Aug
5:05 p.m.
Hi,
I just wanted to add the information that Ubiquiti Networks released SDK
for AirOS v5.5. You can download it from ubnt.com --> support. So no
longer "on request" like mentioned earlier.
Regards,
Franz
Am 30.04.12 18:28, schrieb fboehm:
According to Ubiquiti support the SDK for AirOS v5.5
will be released
in a few weeks.
Regards,
Franz
Am 29.04.12 16:29, schrieb Guido Iribarren:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:27 AM,
fboehm<fboehm(a)aon.at> wrote:
Hi Mitar,
what Ubiquiti products are you using? Because they have the older
802.11a/b/g based product series and the newer 802.11n based with their
proprietary Airmax wireless drivers. I am asking because the Airmax
products
have been upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 recently.
Indeed,
XM.v5.3# uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.15-5.2 #1 Fri Jan 14 14:43:07 EET 2011 mips unknown
XM.v5.5# uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.32.54 #1 Fri Apr 6 14:56:27 EEST 2012 mips unknown
(run on two nano loco m900, the latter with latest firmware)
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