[WLANware] ff-meraki-pack?

[Sven-Ola Tuecke]

Hi Dan,

catching up with the ever evolving/changeing hardware front with monolitic 
one-upload-does-it-all firmwares will be too much work. Just if you're ready 
with one, another interesting thing will pop out of the supermarket. The 
fonera stuff costs me by far to much time - and I'm due upgrading the 
standard bcom-freifunk-firmware...

For this reason, I am willing to maintain the broadcom firmware as it 
exists. This will stay on kerel 2.4 and will run on those things we already 
have on the roofs. This includes devices with 2Mb Flash + 8Mb RAM.

The fonera pack is a special. I used it to learn for the next wave. Which 
will simply consist of an ipkg to be installed on top of a standard OpenWrt. 
No more (other) monolitic firmwares from my side. Installing an ipk will 
require medium skills and will also adress the needs of the more nerdy 
audience. Even the most eleet are lazy - and so normally their from-scratch 
mesh installations typically suffers from missing services / misconfigured 
stuff. In other words: they install + maintain what they need and do not 
think too much for others. Doing only ip transport is not enough in my 
opinon. An ipkg will help, but will leave enough room for lots of 
customizations.

// Sven-Ola

""Dan Flett"" <conhoolio at hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:BAY141-DAV25306636C877BDE5345BAAF540 at phx.gbl...
It depends on the situation and the people who are doing the installing.  I
want to let end-users do the installation.  So I want them to have an easy
as an experience as possible - like just hitting "Upload" in the router's
"firmware upgrade" web interface..

Loading OpenWRT on the Meraki involves either pulling the unit apart and
attaching a serial cable - which isn't too hard for most of us but too
difficult for some.  Or you need to monkey around with ip addresses and try
to catch the short Redboot Telnet window to get in via telnet.  not for the
non-hacker.

If you are going to install them yourself, then get a serial cable, and
installing 20 won't be too hard.  But it might be too difficult for an
end-user to install.

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wlanware-bounces at freifunk.net
> [mailto:wlanware-bounces at freifunk.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Paufler
> Sent: Sunday, 22 April 2007 4:51 AM
> To: WLAN-Hard+ Software, Antennen
> Subject: Re: [WLANware] ff-meraki-pack?
>
> Hey Dan
>
> > This is a fantastic idea - I would really like to see
> something like
> > this for the Meraki.  While it is possible to install
> OpenWRT on the
> > Meraki, it is difficult unless you have a Serial cable, and
> that has it's own problems.
> > I am thinking that a ff-meraki-pack would solve these
> problems - the
> > vendor Meraki firmware allows you SSH access, and it has
> IPKG installed.
> Why exactly is it difficult to install openWRT on meraki?
> What are their "own problems" regarding openWRT?
>
> I ask, because we might use ~20 of them for ghana. If it is a
> real problem to do meshing with them, we should consider not
> to use them.
>
> Thanks for hints.
>
> Daniel
>
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> Angewandte Informatik - Computer Aided Facility Managemnt
> FHTW Berlin (http://www.fhtw-berlin.de)
>
>

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