On 08/11/2017 11:43 AM, Gio wrote:
On Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:36:29 CEST McL0v1n via
lime-users wrote:
So I've built Libremesh using the sdk for my
wrt54gs v3.
never tested that device judging from the info i found a around the CPU is
very slow and the wireless driver is not friendly
WRT54GS 3.0 200 MHz 32 MB 8 MB
Let us know if you have issues with slow CPU or small RAM :)
> It boots fine, but
> the wireless is not working by default.
In case the wireless chip doesn't support having multiple virtual
interfaces on the same radio (more than one AP active on the same
physical interface or AP + something else like adhoc or 802.11s) you can
still use LiMe on that router but you will have to activate just AP or
just 802.11s or just adhoc on the main radio. When you specify more than
one and the hardware doesn't support it, none of them works.
So for having both AP and some mesh, you will have to use a USB dongle
or another wireless router connected to LAN.
> Should I have to do extra
> configuration? I did notice both ad-hoc and 80211s are on by default.
It is not the default, as you can see in /etc/config/lime-defaults
there's a wifi section like this:
config lime wifi
[...]
list modes 'ap'
list modes 'apname'
list modes 'ieee80211s'
[...]
to keep just one of the three funcions you can add either:
config lime wifi
list modes 'ap'
or:
config lime wifi
list modes 'ieee80211s'
or (just in case your hardware doesn't support 802.11s):
config lime wifi
list modes 'adhoc'
to /etc/config/lime file (options in lime file have higher priority than
options in lime-defaults).
This will deactivate the modes not explicitly included in the list.
Apply configuration with lime-config command and reboot the router.
As I write above, if you just have many of these routers with limited
wireless chip, you can set half of them as mesh (either 802.11s if it
works or adhoc) and half of them as AP, and link them in couples via
ethernet cable in the LAN ports.
I'm planning to try something like this with many unsupported routers we
have in our local hacklab :)
Bye,
Ilario