lime July 2018

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19 discussions

by bruno vianna

Hello meshies I know everybody is having fun at Battle Mesh, but if someone could take a look at this I' d really appreciate. I really have my eyes on the C50, as it seems to be the cheapest dual-band on the market now. I can get on in Brazil for less than 40 USD! Last week I bought one which I later found out to be an unsupported V2. But now I got a V1, and it almost works. If it works, I'll the buy about 10 for an installation in two weeks. The problem seems to be with 802.11. The 2.4Ghz radio does not work in ad-hoc mode - although the 5Ghz radio does. Then I don't know if it's related, but when it meshes with a WDR3500, the Internet is painfully slow, with some ping times about 1000-2000 milliseconds. Pinging from the LiMe gateway at the same time gives me a steady 57ms. Perhaps a different driver should be used? Attached is a file with information gathered from the router. A few other oddities (not as important as the issue above): - Could not flash from stock directly with the compiled LiMe. I had to first use this openwrt [1], then LiMe - When I flash from the firmware above with the LiMe I compiled or the download Lede, I get the message: " It appears that you try to flash an image that does not fit into the flash memory, please verify the image file! Size: 7.63 MB (7.62 MB available)" It works fine, tough. - The firmware I cooked with my community settings (using cooker) won't go through to the Internet, and gives this ESSID instead of my community's:{{NETWORK_NAME}} (although it meshes with the LiMe gateway) - The firmware I cooked without community settings connects to the Internet through the LiMe gateway with the sluggish times above. Thanks! [1] http://dl.eko.one.pl/luci/chaos_calmer/ramips/luci-15.05-ramips-mt7620-Arch… -- bruno(a)pobox.com ▀─█▄██▄▀▄ http://brunovianna.net ─█▄██▄▀█▀█▄ skype: randomico▀─█▄██▄▀█▀█▄▌██─█▌█▌

5 years, 5 months

[lime-users] openwrt-18.06 branch for lime-packages and 18.06-rc1 chef images

by Daniel Golle

Hi! Are there plans for branches of the lime feeds corresponding to the upcoming openwrt-18.06 release? I reckon we should have that. Also, it'd be great for chef.libremesh.org to already offer plain OpenWrt 18.06-rc1 images as well as with lime-18.?? on top. Cheers Daniel

6 years, 2 months

[lime-users] TP-Link Archer C20 v4 and TL-WR840Nv5(ES) - any experience?

by Patricio Gibbs

On Monday night through Wednesday we have a training that includes setting up a 400 meter link (near Puyo, Ecuador, UTC-5). We have purchased a TP-Link Archer C20 v4. We plan to connect it via Nanostation2 and NanoLoco2 with a WR840Nv5(ES) that belongs to a small ISP (why this arrangement? combo of cheapest new and used hardware that I thought would work). The 840N only has 4MB RAM, which I understand is not really recommended for LibreMesh. Neither of the routers are on the list of devices at http://chef.libremesh.org/ for LibreMesh, but they are on the list for OpenWrt. The most similar device by name on the LibreMesh list is the Archer C20i. If we can LibreMesh-ify the ISPs 840N router in a way that it can easily be returned to factory firmware, maybe we will do that. If we can LibreMesh-ify the Archer C20 without a high probability of bricking it, we will do that (we don't have money in the budget for a replacement this week). I can use lime-sdk cooker instead of Chef -- I have done this before to test a new translation file. Suggestions on how to proceed? Here's the C20v4 data: https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/tp-link/tp-link_archer_c20_ac750_v4 Supported Current Rel: snapshot Unsupported Functions: WiFi 5GHz Target: ramips Subtarget: mt76x8 Package architecture: mipsel_24kc Bootloader: U-Boot CPU: MediaTek MT7628AN 8 MB flash, 64 MB RAM Compare to C20i: https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/tp-link/tp-link_archer_c20i_ac750_v1 Supported Current Rel: 17.01.4 Unsupported Functions: WiFi 5GHz Target: ramips Subtarget: mt7620 Package architecture: mipsel_24kc Bootloader: U-Boot CPU: MediaTek MT7620A 8 MB flash, 64 MB RAM TL-WR840N v5 (ES) -- belongs to the ISP https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WR840N_v5 CPU1: MediaTek MT7628N (575 MHz) FLA1: 4 MiB (GigaDevice GD25Q32B) RAM1: 64 MiB (ESMT M14D5121632A) ~ Pato

6 years, 3 months

[lime-users] LiMe device compatibility and Chef

by Patricio Gibbs

Continuing my quest to categorize devices based on their LibreMesh compatibility, since the LibreRouter hasn't arrived yet and won't solve all needs.... 1) great, (e.g. WDR3500) 2) okay, but fixed antennas 3) some functions not working, (e.g. Archer C20v4) 4) emergencies only (ones that have 4 or 2 MB flash) 5) incompatible (e.g. 841HP) In Chef, when I type "ubiq" in the router model field, I get a list of Ubiquiti devices supposedly compatible with the latest release of LibreMesh. How is this list generated? Is it reviewed by a human? Here are examples of why I ask: it says Nano-M and Nano M XW: are these NanoStation or NanoBeam? It says Loco XW but the OpenWrt ToH says that the latest supported release for the Loco is 10.03.1, https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/nanostationm2....? Flashing LibreMesh onto NanoStation and TP-Link CPE devices could make some networks much easier to maintain.... If it actually works. This continues a conversation from last year about improving our documentation, such as maintaining a LibreMesh wiki. ~ Patricio

6 years, 3 months

[lime-users] Current options of a captive portal for LiMe

by Amuza

Hello, Here we are considering again the captive portal thing. It would be a welcome page with some community news, not real authentication. I guess we would like a system where MAC addresses of users who just clicked an "Ok" button of the splash page would be validated for a month. So they would have to go through this News page once a month. I've seen Nodogsplash seems to be maintained again, so I can try to make it work for LiMe. But first I wanted to ask about Pitbull, as I think that was something similar but specially made for LiMe. What is the status of Pitbull? Would it work for the described need? Thank you!

6 years, 4 months

[lime-users] Little steps in the good direction

by Amuza

Hey sisters, Let me share some good news for community networks -and bad ones for ISPs: 0.- Bitmessage has been working on LAN peer auto-discovery. It is already in v0.6 branch, we tested it and it works. 1.- Retroshare will finally have asynchronous messaging working (Retroshare already has LAN peer auto-discovery). 2.- Impressive ZeroNet is aware of the importance of LAN peer auto-discovery and they are going to add this feature.

6 years, 4 months

[lime-users] Chef. Libremesh.org snapshot

by Juergen Kimmel

Snapshot means which release? 17.01.5, 18.06.0-rc1, 18.06.0-rc2?

6 years, 4 months

[lime-users] 2 wan

by Brian Russell

Has anyone managed to get a router with at least 3 gigabit ethernet ports to perform services like redundancy or load balancing using the multiwan packet? I'd be interested in hearing your experience and a recommendation of what to buy, and how to configure the ports. Guido (busy sailing these days) told me that the hard part is configuring the ports, and that each configuration is hardware-specific... Has anyone tried with the tplink wr1043n? It's the cheapest gigabit machine i have been able to find....

6 years, 4 months

[lime-users] How to access node through node

by Juergen Kimmel

I didn't find the way to access a meshing node from another node.

6 years, 4 months

[lime-users] Lime QmP compatibility

by Juergen Kimmel

Libremesh cooker offers a network profile "qmp-V1" Does this mean this profile meshes with qmp nodes?

6 years, 4 months

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