El 23 de marzo de 2020 8:59:51 ART, Ilario Gelmetti <iochesonome@gmail.com> escribió:

On 3/22/20 9:40 PM, pmauro@posteo.net wrote:
Good afternoon people!

Heeeeelo and welcome!!

TLDR: on lime 17.x there was a Luci web interface (at thisnode.info)
with a lot of configurations, and an option to upgrade the router's
firmware. What happened to that in version 18.06?

Ah hem... 18.06 is not an existing LibreMesh release, the latest release
is 17.06 but most of the new installations use the development code
compiled on top of OpenWrt 18.06 (which is considered to be stable
enough to make a release, still has not been packaged as a release yet).
I suggest to compile the development code using the instructions here
[1] on "Compiling LibreMesh from source code".

I have now two routers to test: a TP-Link TL-WR842ND and a Linksys
E2000, both with version 18.06.
The TP-Link router works great! but in the Linksys I have no wifi...
(now trying to see why)

Linksys E2000 [2,3] have Broadcom wireless chipset, so it does not
support multiAP (multiAP means that each radio can only have one
interface, including mesh, but not mesh+AP+AP as we do by default in
LibreMesh).

For example, a meaningful configuration would be to use 2.4 GHz radio
for AP and 5 GHz radio for mesh.
For doing so, with development code, you'll need the following
/etc/config/lime-node:
config lime system
# empty section means: take config from lime-community or lime-defaults

config lime network
# empty section means: take config from lime-community or lime-defaults

config lime wifi
	list modes 'ap_2ghz'
	list modes 'ieee80211s_5ghz'	
then apply the LibreMesh configuration to OpenWrt configuration with
"lime-config" command and reboot.
The two lines I specified are documented in /docs/lime-example [4].
Some more documentation is on the website [5].

While trying to test a "vanilla" OpenWRT .bin on the Linksys, I realized
that the web interface for updating the firmware (among other things)
that was present in some 17.x relase was no longer there, instead
replaced by another web app. Is that correct?

Yes, the development code is using lime-app.
In my opinion it lacks some features for being a great and simpler
replacement of the default LuCI, between those also the upload firmware
one. Please contribute to the discussion here [6].
For uploading a new firmware, I usually use the
"sysupgrade -n /tmp/blabla.bin" command.
If you really need LuCI classical web interface, you can select it in
the menuconfig during compilation (or install it via command line using
opkg) and then open it with http://thisnode.info/cgi-bin/luci/ (as the
default http://thisnode.info is now pointing to lime-app location).

Also, do you know where I can look to know why the router has no wifi?
(I can connect to it via ethernet). 

See above.

Also, I will need to make something
specific so that the two routers can build a mesh?

Nope, it's automagic!

(I'm following the
instructions on the section "Compiling LibreMesh from source code")

Perfect!

Thanks to you all for the great work!
The simple fact of sending a mail to you It's a pleasure for me haha, I
greatly admire this project :)

Yeah! Thanks to the whole community :)
Hugs,
Ilario

[1] https://libremesh.org/development.html
[2] https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt320n
[3] https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_e2000_v1
[4]
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/blob/master/packages/lime-docs/files/lime-example
[5] https://libremesh.org/docs/index.html
[6] https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/issues/327