23 Mar
2017
23 Mar
'17
1:58 p.m.
Hi All,
I'm working on a community wifi project in Exarcheia, Athens [1], and
today we were trying to experiment a bit with libremesh, but had a
couple of issues:
1 - It looks like chef is down - the registration form is broken with
a gnarly python error - any ETA when it might come back so i can try
to build my own firmware?
2 - It looks like the Nanostation M2 has AR7240 chipset, the prebuilt
images say ar71xx - is that compatible? When i try to upload using web
interface of the stock firmware I get error message 'Wrong firmware
version is uploaded', which is unexpected according to OpenWRT
installation instructions for my device. I've tried all images I could
get my hands on from your firmware downloads, using the factory
version e.g. openwrt-15.05.1-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-loco-m-xw-squashfs-factory
Thanks for any help :)
James
[1] sorry, FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/234009080383661/
23 Mar
23 Mar
2:27 p.m.
New subject: [lime-users] libremesh on Ubiquiti Nanostation, chef registration down
On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 15:58 +0200, James Lewis wrote:
Hi All,
Hi James, Welcome!!
I'm working on a community wifi project in
Exarcheia, Athens [1],
Congrats on your project!!!
and
today we were trying to experiment a bit with libremesh, but had a
couple of issues:
1 - It looks like chef is down - the registration form is broken with
a gnarly python error - any ETA when it might come back so i can try
to build my own firmware?
I will look into it right now!
4:47 p.m.
New subject: [lime-users] libremesh on Ubiquiti Nanostation, chef registration down
On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 11:27 -0300, Nicolas Pace wrote:
On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 15:58 +0200, James Lewis wrote:
And Chef is back again... thanks for your report!
Hi All,
Hi James, Welcome!!
I'm working on a community wifi project in
Exarcheia, Athens [1],
Congrats on your project!!!
and
today we were trying to experiment a bit with libremesh, but had a
couple of issues:
1 - It looks like chef is down - the registration form is broken
with
a gnarly python error - any ETA when it might come back so i can
try
to build my own firmware?
I will look into it right now! 
4:46 p.m.
2017-03-23 14:58 GMT+01:00 James Lewis <lewis.james(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi All,
Hey James welcome to the mailing list :D
2 - It looks like the Nanostation M2 has AR7240
chipset, the prebuilt
images say ar71xx - is that compatible?
Yess
When i try to upload using web
interface of the stock firmware I get error message 'Wrong firmware
version is uploaded', which is unexpected according to OpenWRT
installation instructions for my device. I've tried all images I could
get my hands on from your firmware downloads, using the factory
version e.g. openwrt-15.05.1-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-loco-m-xw-squashfs-factory
Mmh... Strange.
So, the fact that you're using the factory firmware is good. But you
should use the "nano" image instead of the "loco" one, so:
openwrt-15.05.1-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-nano-m-squashfs-factory.bin
or
openwrt-15.05.1-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-nano-m-xw-squashfs-factory.bin
depending if your Nanostation M2 is XM (older) or XW (newer), can you
check it? (I think this can be seen looking at the MAC address, don't
know where is a reference table).
Then there's the big Ubiquiti trap/joke called AirOS 5.6: flashing
OpenWrt/LEDE on top of AirOS 5.6 bricks your device, debrikking via
serial connection is possible.
If you have AirOS 5.6 installed you will have to downgrade to AirOS
5.5. I think that 5.5 is not available anymore on their site so you
can download it from here:
https://uz.sns.it/~ilario/XM.v5.5.11.28002.150723.1344.bin
https://uz.sns.it/~ilario/XW.v5.5.10-u2.28005.150723.1358.bin
Then, until when Chef is not restored, you can try with pre-compiled
LibreMesh 16.07 taken from here:
https://downloads.libremesh.org/community_chaos/16.07/ar71xx/generic/
Let us know how things go on!
Ciao,
Ilario
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