11 Jun
2018
11 Jun
'18
9:04 a.m.
Hi Patricio,
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 06:47:45PM -0500, Patricio Gibbs wrote:
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?
The low-level part of LibreMesh is really just OpenWrt. So these are
the boards OpenWrt generates images for on the platforms we try to
support. Platforms (ie. chipsets) are preselected by humans, because we
just know that some things will never work well (broadcom...), are too
outdated or unsuitable for libremesh in any other way. Hence, all
boards of out supported targets supported by OpenWrt CC 15.05
automatically end up being supported by LibreMesh. ar71xx (the by far
most popular target which also includes all ubnt outdoor devices)
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.
Nah, XM and XW are based on different reference designs:
XM means AR7xxx SoC + AR9xxx WiFi via PCIe
XW means AR9xxx SoC with integrated WiFi
ie. XW is more recent and cheaper to make (and also more RAM...)
"Nano M" refers to ubnt XM series NanoStation M2 and M5 *including the
old XM Loco variants*.
"Nano M XW" refers to ubnt XW series NanoStation M5 and M5, but not
the loco variants, there are extra images for those.
"Loco XW" refers to XW series low-cost devices such as the
NanoStation M2/M5 Loco **XW**.
And sure, LiMe works on TP-Link CPE devices, though those devices
themselves are not exactly great hardware.
I might not completely understand your question and/or problem here but
hope I could provide some useful information. If you have any questions,
please ask!
This continues a conversation from last year about improving our documentation, such as
maintaining a LibreMesh wiki.
I don't think that creating a whole lot of redundant information such
as on hardware support makes sense. We depend on OpenWrt here anyway,
so why not just improve the OpenWrt wiki instead?
Cheers
Daniel
~ Patricio
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