5 Nov
2016
5 Nov
'16
7:24 a.m.
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Hi,
What is the best wireless LiMe router for long distances cooked the Chef
?
Thank you!
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I have played with Nanostation M5, and they work ok, but I am looking
for a more directional solution for a long distance poin-to-point link
within a noisy environment.
Maybe it's not just about the router, maybe I would have to get a
special antenna too? If so, please suggest.
Thank you!
On 05/11/16 08:24, Amuza wrote:
Hi,
What is the best wireless LiMe router for long distances cooked
the Chef ?
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6 Nov
6 Nov
11:12 a.m.
On 11/05/2016 09:03 AM, Amuza wrote:
I have played with Nanostation M5, and they work ok,
but I am looking
for a more directional solution for a long distance poin-to-point link
within a noisy environment.
My experience in the field is too limited for giving you an answer.
Anyway looking at the supported Ubiquiti devices the PowerBeam M5 400
(PBE-M5-400 https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/powerbeam) looks good.
The AC version of these antennas is not supported yet by OpenWrt/LEDE
(note that they're not 802.11ac anyway, they're just evilUbiquiti
[1]/signature checking locked [2]/vendor lock-in [3]/proprietary
protocol [3]/hackers enemy [2,4] devices).
I hope we can find a better vendor (or wait for LibreRouter [5]).
Bye!
Ilario
[1] http://libertybsd.net/ubiquiti/
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/Business-Talk/Any-update-on-GPL-licence-viola…
[2]
https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-November/037572.html
[3] airMAX AC is not 802.11ac, it's a proprietary protocol
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/airMAX-AC/Disabling-AirMax-on-Nanobeam-AC-to-…
[4] in my opinion moving partitions during a firmware upgrade in a way
that you brick your device flashing it with non-original firmware is
evil. http://bloodhound.aredn.org/products/AREDN/wiki/HowTo/Unbrick
[5] https://librerouter.org/
7 Nov
7 Nov
11:02 a.m.
On 06/11/16 12:12, Ilario Gelmetti wrote:
On 11/05/2016 09:03 AM, Amuza wrote:
Thank you Ilario!
But, I have not seen any "PowerBeam" word or similar within the binaries
cooked by the Chef for my network. The "ubnt" binaries I find are:
air-gateway, airrouter, bullet, loco, ls, nano, rocket, rs, uap, unifi...
I guess you mean the PBE-M5-400 looks good to be compiled with the LiMe
Build tool, don't you?
I hope compiling a firmware image for it is not problematic...
I have played with Nanostation M5, and they work
ok, but I am looking
for a more directional solution for a long distance poin-to-point link
within a noisy environment.
My experience in the field is too limited for giving
you an answer.
Anyway looking at the supported Ubiquiti devices the PowerBeam M5 400
(PBE-M5-400 https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/powerbeam) looks good. The AC version of these antennas is not supported yet
by OpenWrt/LEDE
(note that they're not 802.11ac anyway, they're just evilUbiquiti
[1]/signature checking locked [2]/vendor lock-in [3]/proprietary
protocol [3]/hackers enemy [2,4] devices).
I hope we can find a better vendor (or wait for LibreRouter [5]).
Bye!
Ilario
[1] http://libertybsd.net/ubiquiti/
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/Business-Talk/Any-update-on-GPL-licence-viola…
[2]
https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-November/037572.html
[3] airMAX AC is not 802.11ac, it's a proprietary protocol
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/airMAX-AC/Disabling-AirMax-on-Nanobeam-AC-to-…
[4] in my opinion moving partitions during a firmware upgrade in a way
that you brick your device flashing it with non-original firmware is
evil. http://bloodhound.aredn.org/products/AREDN/wiki/HowTo/Unbrick
[5] https://librerouter.org/
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11:52 a.m.
2016-11-07 12:02 GMT+01:00 Amuza <amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
On 06/11/16 12:12, Ilario Gelmetti wrote:
Sorry I didn't specify, for the Ubiquiti airMax hardware serie there
are just a few OpenWrt/LEDE images which differs in how many ethernet
and USB port are present on the device, as explained here:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/airmaxm
So, the PowerBeam and NanoBeam have just one ethernet port and no USB:
the "bullet" image should be the most suitable one. I just don't know
what is the "loco" image...
Bye!
Ilario
PS always check to NOT flash LibreMesh on AirOS 5.6. Downgrade to
version 5.5 and is safe to flash.
On 11/05/2016 09:03 AM, Amuza wrote:
But, I have not seen any "PowerBeam" word or similar within the binaries
cooked by the Chef for my network. The "ubnt" binaries I find are:
air-gateway, airrouter, bullet, loco, ls, nano, rocket, rs, uap, unifi... I have played with Nanostation M5, and they work
ok, but I am looking
for a more directional solution for a long distance poin-to-point link
within a noisy environment.
My experience in the field is too limited for giving you an answer.
Anyway looking at the supported Ubiquiti devices the PowerBeam M5 400
(PBE-M5-400 https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/powerbeam) looks good.
2:09 p.m.
On 07/11/16 12:52, Ilario wrote:
2016-11-07 12:02 GMT+01:00 Amuza
<amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
Terrific! I will
downgrade to 5.5 and then I'll try with the "bullet"
image from the Chef. Thanks.
On 06/11/16 12:12, Ilario Gelmetti wrote:
Sorry I
didn't specify, for the Ubiquiti airMax hardware serie there
are just a few OpenWrt/LEDE images which differs in how many ethernet
and USB port are present on the device, as explained here:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/airmaxm
So, the PowerBeam and NanoBeam have just one ethernet port and no USB:
the "bullet" image should be the most suitable one. On 11/05/2016 09:03 AM, Amuza wrote:
But, I
have not seen any "PowerBeam" word or similar within the binaries
cooked by the Chef for my network. The "ubnt" binaries I find are:
air-gateway, airrouter, bullet, loco, ls, nano, rocket, rs, uap, unifi... I have played with Nanostation M5, and they work
ok, but I am looking
for a more directional solution for a long distance poin-to-point link
within a noisy environment.
My experience in the field is too limited for giving
you an answer.
Anyway looking at the supported Ubiquiti devices the PowerBeam M5 400
(PBE-M5-400 https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/powerbeam) looks good. I just don't know
what is the "loco" image...
Loco is the name of some NanoStation models
[1]. It is also the Spanish
word describing the state I turn into when trying to understand all this
chipset thing... The link you sent [2] reads ar71xx chipset, but on the
Ubiquity site -for models like PowerBeam or NanoStation- I just can find
Atheros MIPS 74Kc, 560 MHz...
[1] https://www.ubnt.com/airmax/nanostationm/
[2] https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/airmaxm
16 Nov
16 Nov
10:31 p.m.
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On 07/11/16 15:09, Amuza wrote:
On 07/11/16 12:52, Ilario wrote:
Hi again. I got the suggested PowerBeam, the PBE-M5-400.
I have downgraded it to version 5.5.
I am ready to flash it with Lime bin for bullet.
But I have just seen that the firmware of my PBE-M5-400 is XW,
as in some Nanostations.
However I do not see an XW Lime version for the bullet on the cooked
images from the Chef. What should I do? Shall I proceed anyway?
2016-11-07 12:02 GMT+01:00 Amuza
<amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
Terrific! I
will downgrade to 5.5 and then I'll try with the
"bullet" image from the Chef. Thanks.
On 06/11/16 12:12, Ilario Gelmetti wrote:
Sorry I didn't specify, for the Ubiquiti airMax
hardware serie
there are just a few OpenWrt/LEDE images which differs in how
many ethernet and USB port are present on the device, as
explained here: https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/airmaxm
So, the PowerBeam and NanoBeam have just one ethernet port and no
USB: the "bullet" image should be the most suitable one. On 11/05/2016 09:03 AM, Amuza wrote:
> I have played with Nanostation M5, and they work ok, but I
> am looking for a more directional solution for a long
> distance poin-to-point link within a noisy environment.
My experience in the field is too limited for giving you an
answer. Anyway looking at the supported Ubiquiti devices the
PowerBeam M5 400 (PBE-M5-400
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/powerbeam) looks good.
But, I have not seen
any "PowerBeam" word or similar within the
binaries cooked by the Chef for my network. The "ubnt" binaries
I find are: air-gateway, airrouter, bullet, loco, ls, nano,
rocket, rs, uap, unifi... I just don't know what is the
"loco" image...
Loco is the name of some NanoStation models [1]. It is
also the
Spanish word describing the state I turn into when trying to
understand all this chipset thing... The link you sent [2] reads
ar71xx chipset, but on the Ubiquity site -for models like PowerBeam
or NanoStation- I just can find Atheros MIPS 74Kc, 560 MHz...
[1] https://www.ubnt.com/airmax/nanostationm/ [2]
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/airmaxm
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17 Nov
17 Nov
10:35 a.m.
2016-11-16 23:31 GMT+01:00 Amuza <amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
Hi again. I got the suggested PowerBeam, the
PBE-M5-400.
I have downgraded it to version 5.5.
I am ready to flash it with Lime bin for bullet.
But I have just seen that the firmware of my PBE-M5-400 is XW,
as in some Nanostations.
However I do not see an XW Lime version for the bullet on the cooked
images from the Chef. What should I do? Shall I proceed anyway?
You're right, the correct image is NOT bullet but loco-xw which is
equivalent to bullet image but for XW hardware (it would have been
easier if they called it bullet-xw).
Let us know :D
Ilario
20 Nov
20 Nov
8:17 p.m.
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On 17/11/16 11:35, Ilario wrote:
2016-11-16 23:31 GMT+01:00 Amuza
<amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
Thank you.
I'm in trouble now.
I wasn't able to flash the PBE-M5-400 through the GUI.
When putting the 192.168.1.20 in the browser, I went to Firmware
Update, select my loco-m-xw factory bin and pressed "Upload".
Then I could read the statement "Uploaded Firmware Version:
XW.v6.0.0-OpenWrt-r49403".
I clicked on the "Update" button and saw the "Firmware is being
updated" window.
After some seconds that window closed and then I could normally log in
again to the airOS at 192.168.1.20 : (
Flashing did not work.
Manually rebooting the router did not help, LiMe did not show up either.
By the way, I realized that according to the GUI I had a NanoBeam M5
400 instead of a PowerBeam M5 400. I contacted Ubiquity, they said
version 5.5 was NanoBeam, and then they rebranded it to PowerBeam with
version 5.6.
(I downgraded the system from 5.6 to 5.5 some emails ago)
As I could not flash it through the GUI, I went to openwrt.org and
found [1] that I could flash it through ssh with the following command:
fwupdate.real -m firmware_image_file.bin -d
I realized that every time I was trying to upload firmware with the
GUI, a file called "fwupdate.bin" appeared at /tmp with the same size.
So I uploaded my loco-m-xw factory LiMe bin file through the GUI and
then, through ssh, I went to /tmp and did the following:
fwupdate.real -m fwupdate.bin -d
Everything looked cool. The leds on the router did the Knight Rider
show. But then I could do nothing else. Now I cannot connect to the
PBE-M5-400 anymore in anyway I know.
Its only living signals now are the power led and the LAN led, the LAN
led flashes when it's got something plugged in, but that's all :/
Please help!
I attach a file with the outputs of flashing it through ssh. Just in
case they are useful.
Thank you.
[1] https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/nanobeam
Hi again. I got the suggested PowerBeam, the
PBE-M5-400. I have
downgraded it to version 5.5. I am ready to flash it with Lime
bin for bullet. But I have just seen that the firmware of my
PBE-M5-400 is XW, as in some Nanostations. However I do not see
an XW Lime version for the bullet on the cooked images from the
Chef. What should I do? Shall I proceed anyway?
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equivalent to bullet image but for XW hardware (it would have been
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27 Nov
27 Nov
11:06 p.m.
On 20/11/16 21:17, Amuza wrote:
On 17/11/16 11:35, Ilario wrote:
Hi again, I'm replying to myself : (
I had the opportunity to talk to Ilario who helped me a lot in the
troubleshooting -thank you Ilario!!- but unfortunately I still cannot
make it work.
I thought the cause of the problem was that I was trying to install the
wrong firmware (loco-m-xw), I thought everything would be fine when
installing the apparently correct one (rocket-m-xw). I was wrong.
Ilario taught me how to upload the firmware through TFTP. I could
communicate again with my router but, when doing the TFTP transfer, I
always had a 'Firmware check failed' message, despite I properly checked
file integrity (MD5) of the firmwares I tried to install: OpenWRT
rocket-m-xw, the LiMe rocket-m-xw and AirOS xw v.5.5.6.
Didn't understand what exactly happened but somehow I managed to have
the AirOS xw v5.5.6 back to life after a proper reset. Apparently the
AirOS system was always there, healthy, and I did not notice.
So I happily started the upload of the correct firmware (rocket-m-xw)
through the GUI hoping this time will be fine because now I was choosing
the correct firmware. But then I had the same problem as when I started:
I uploaded the firmware, clicked on Update, everything looked fine but
the new firmware (OpenWRT or LiMe) was not being installed, the AirOS
firmware always stayed there.
So I decided to apply the command line workaround I tried before:
- Upload the image through GUI
- ssh ubnt(a)192.168.1.20
- fwupdate.real -m fwupdate.bin -d
Everything looked cool during the process but, again, when the update
apparently ended, I was exactly at the same point of my previous email:
The router again seemed bricked. Fortunately now I knew that patience
and a reset would take me again to AirOS v5.5.6. That's where I am now,
again.
I do not know how to flash OpenWRT or LiMe on this PBE-M5-400 router.
Any suggestion? If I don't receive any answer I will soon try to get rid
of this thingy.
Does anyone know any working LiMe router more unidirectional than the
NanoStation M5? I need something more unidirectional.
It does not have to be a new model. Actually, I prefer if it is an old
one, so that I can get a second-hand one.
Cheers
2016-11-16 23:31 GMT+01:00 Amuza
<amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
> Hi again. I got the suggested PowerBeam, the PBE-M5-400. I have
> downgraded it to version 5.5. I am ready to flash it with Lime
> bin for bullet. But I have just seen that the firmware of my
> PBE-M5-400 is XW, as in some Nanostations. However I do not see
> an XW Lime version for the bullet on the cooked images from the
> Chef. What should I do? Shall I proceed anyway?
You're right, the correct image is NOT
bullet but loco-xw which is
equivalent to bullet image but for XW hardware (it would have been
easier if they called it bullet-xw). Let us know :D Ilario
Thank you.
I'm in trouble now.
I wasn't able to flash the PBE-M5-400 through the GUI.
When putting the 192.168.1.20 in the browser, I went to Firmware
Update, select my loco-m-xw factory bin and pressed "Upload".
Then I could read the statement "Uploaded Firmware Version:
XW.v6.0.0-OpenWrt-r49403".
I clicked on the "Update" button and saw the "Firmware is being
updated" window.
After some seconds that window closed and then I could normally log in
again to the airOS at 192.168.1.20 : (
Flashing did not work.
Manually rebooting the router did not help, LiMe did not show up either.
By the way, I realized that according to the GUI I had a NanoBeam M5
400 instead of a PowerBeam M5 400. I contacted Ubiquity, they said
version 5.5 was NanoBeam, and then they rebranded it to PowerBeam with
version 5.6.
(I downgraded the system from 5.6 to 5.5 some emails ago)
As I could not flash it through the GUI, I went to openwrt.org and
found [1] that I could flash it through ssh with the following command:
fwupdate.real -m firmware_image_file.bin -d
I realized that every time I was trying to upload firmware with the
GUI, a file called "fwupdate.bin" appeared at /tmp with the same size.
So I uploaded my loco-m-xw factory LiMe bin file through the GUI and
then, through ssh, I went to /tmp and did the following:
fwupdate.real -m fwupdate.bin -d
Everything looked cool. The leds on the router did the Knight Rider
show. But then I could do nothing else. Now I cannot connect to the
PBE-M5-400 anymore in anyway I know.
Its only living signals now are the power led and the LAN led, the LAN
led flashes when it's got something plugged in, but that's all :/
Please help!
I attach a file with the outputs of flashing it through ssh. Just in
case they are useful.
Thank you.
[1] https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/nanobeam 
28 Nov
28 Nov
11:45 a.m.
Does anyone know any working LiMe router more unidirectional than the
NanoStation M5? I need something more unidirectional.
It does not have to be a new model. Actually, I prefer if it is an old
one, so that I can get a second-hand one.
Hey Amuza
Let me ask you, are you using this M5 as an acess point? That is, are you
planning to use it to connect several antennas? Or are you making a
long-distance point to point connection? Because if it is the latter case,
there is not much sense in installing libre-mesh in it - after all, it will
only have two ports (wifi and ethernet). Not much meshing to be done there.
In these cases we usually leave AirOS in bridge mode (with WDS enabled) and
use libremesh in the routers connected to ir in both ends.
Cheers
Bruno
4:06 p.m.
On 28/11/16 12:45, bruno vianna wrote:
Does anyone know any working LiMe router more unidirectional than the
NanoStation M5? I need something more unidirectional.
It does not have to be a new model. Actually, I prefer if it is an old
one, so that I can get a second-hand one.
Hey Amuza
Let me ask you, are you using this M5 as an acess point? That is, are
you planning to use it to connect several antennas? Or are you making
a long-distance point to point connection? Because if it is the latter
case, there is not much sense in installing libre-mesh in it - after
all, it will only have two ports (wifi and ethernet). Not much meshing
to be done there.
Thanks Bruno. The idea was to have LiMe routers everywhere, so that this
point-to-point link could become one day a point-to-multipoint link, or
even used as Access Point by any client that happens to be in the
middle, so I did not think much of other possibilities, but I like your
idea!
In these cases we usually leave AirOS in bridge mode
(with WDS
enabled) and use libremesh in the routers connected to ir in both ends.
I am going to try to stick to the original idea for a while. If I don't
manage to make it, I will come back to you with some questions!
Cheers!
Cheers
Bruno
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30 Nov
30 Nov
10:14 a.m.
2016-11-28 0:06 GMT+01:00 Amuza <amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
On 20/11/16 21:17, Amuza wrote:
This message is strange...
On 17/11/16 11:35, Ilario wrote:
I could
communicate again with my router but, when doing the TFTP transfer, I
always had a 'Firmware check failed' message, despite I properly checked
file integrity (MD5) of the firmwares I tried to install: OpenWRT
rocket-m-xw, the LiMe rocket-m-xw and AirOS xw v.5.5.6. 2016-11-16 23:31 GMT+01:00 Amuza
<amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
> Hi again. I got the suggested PowerBeam, the PBE-M5-400. I have
> downgraded it to version 5.5. I am ready to flash it with Lime
> bin for bullet. But I have just seen that the firmware of my
> PBE-M5-400 is XW, as in some Nanostations. However I do not see
> an XW Lime version for the bullet on the cooked images from the
> Chef. What should I do? Shall I proceed anyway?
I wasn't able to flash
the PBE-M5-400 through the GUI.
When putting the 192.168.1.20 in the browser, I went to Firmware
Update, select my loco-m-xw factory bin and pressed "Upload".
Then I could read the statement "Uploaded Firmware Version:
XW.v6.0.0-OpenWrt-r49403".
I clicked on the "Update" button and saw the "Firmware is being
updated" window.
After some seconds that window closed and then I could normally log in
again to the airOS at 192.168.1.20 : ( Didn't understand what exactly happened but
somehow I managed to have
the AirOS xw v5.5.6 back to life after a proper reset. Apparently the
AirOS system was always there, healthy, and I did not notice.
Ok
So I happily started the upload of the correct
firmware (rocket-m-xw)
through the GUI hoping this time will be fine because now I was choosing
the correct firmware. But then I had the same problem as when I started:
I uploaded the firmware, clicked on Update, everything looked fine but
the new firmware (OpenWRT or LiMe) was not being installed, the AirOS
firmware always stayed there.
Fortunately now I knew that patience
and a reset would take me again to AirOS v5.5.6. That's where I am now,
again.
Looking on the internet doesn't look like there should be problems, I
don't understand.
Maybe you can try to move from AirOS 5.5.6 to another version,
whatever you manage to find, e.g. 5.5.10, never never 5.6.x.
I just looked on Ubiquiti website and there's no 5.5.x image available
to download so I uploaded two old AirOS 5.5.x images I had on my pc,
an XM image and an XW image:
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
Maybe you can find official old download links on Web Archive...
Any suggestion? If I don't receive any answer I
will soon try to get rid
of this thingy.
Bruno suggestion is also a possibility, and for a world post-FCC and
pre-librerouter maybe is the only one.
Have a look also at lime-hwd-ground-routing package, could be useful
for the setup he suggests.
Does anyone know any working LiMe router more
unidirectional than the
NanoStation M5? I need something more unidirectional.
It does not have to be a new model. Actually, I prefer if it is an old
one, so that I can get a second-hand one.
Well, older hardware could be Ubiquiti NanoBridge M5.
Still, also PBE-M5-400 should work... Mah...
Ciao!
Ilario
1 Dec
1 Dec
12:07 p.m.
On Wednesday 30 November 2016 11:14:36 Ilario wrote:
2016-11-28 0:06 GMT+01:00 Amuza
<amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
On retroshare you can find ubnt images too
retroshare://file?name=XW.v5.5.10-
u2.28005.150723.1358.bin&size=6866199&hash=d4b1d0762eb2f992cf9ef379e895bdbe5e5cf0bb
retroshare://file?name=XM.v5.5.11.28002.150723.1344.bin&size=6896662&hash=ccb73fdf9c24f56870db2cf2e8a28e9febd61d15
retroshare://file?name=TI.v5.5.11.28002.150723.1518.bin&size=6589689&hash=3e7345eaa84083c37059f57f165ab08fec50d66b
On 20/11/16 21:17, Amuza wrote:
This message is strange...
On 17/11/16 11:35, Ilario wrote:
I could
communicate again with my router but, when doing the TFTP transfer, I
always had a 'Firmware check failed' message, despite I properly checked
file integrity (MD5) of the firmwares I tried to install: OpenWRT
rocket-m-xw, the LiMe rocket-m-xw and AirOS xw v.5.5.6. 2016-11-16 23:31 GMT+01:00 Amuza
<amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
> Hi again. I got the suggested PowerBeam, the PBE-M5-400. I have
> downgraded it to version 5.5. I am ready to flash it with Lime
> bin for bullet. But I have just seen that the firmware of my
> PBE-M5-400 is XW, as in some Nanostations. However I do not see
> an XW Lime version for the bullet on the cooked images from the
> Chef. What should I do? Shall I proceed anyway?
I wasn't able to flash the PBE-M5-400 through the GUI.
When putting the 192.168.1.20 in the browser, I went to Firmware
Update, select my loco-m-xw factory bin and pressed "Upload".
Then I could read the statement "Uploaded Firmware Version:
XW.v6.0.0-OpenWrt-r49403".
I clicked on the "Update" button and saw the "Firmware is being
updated" window.
After some seconds that window closed and then I could normally log in
again to the airOS at 192.168.1.20 : ( Didn't understand what exactly happened but
somehow I managed to have
the AirOS xw v5.5.6 back to life after a proper reset. Apparently the
AirOS system was always there, healthy, and I did not notice.
Ok
So I happily started the upload of the correct
firmware (rocket-m-xw)
through the GUI hoping this time will be fine because now I was choosing
the correct firmware. But then I had the same problem as when I started:
I uploaded the firmware, clicked on Update, everything looked fine but
the new firmware (OpenWRT or LiMe) was not being installed, the AirOS
firmware always stayed there.
Fortunately now I knew that patience
and a reset would take me again to AirOS v5.5.6. That's where I am now,
again.
Looking on the internet doesn't look like there should be problems, I
don't understand.
Maybe you can try to move from AirOS 5.5.6 to another version,
whatever you manage to find, e.g. 5.5.10, never never 5.6.x.
I just looked on Ubiquiti website and there's no 5.5.x image available
to download so I uploaded two old AirOS 5.5.x images I had on my pc,
an XM image and an XW image:
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
Maybe you can find official old download links on Web Archive... Any suggestion? If I don't receive any
answer I will soon try to get rid
of this thingy.
Bruno suggestion is also a possibility, and for a world post-FCC and
pre-librerouter maybe is the only one.
Have a look also at lime-hwd-ground-routing package, could be useful
for the setup he suggests.
Does anyone know any working LiMe router more
unidirectional than the
NanoStation M5? I need something more unidirectional.
It does not have to be a new model. Actually, I prefer if it is an old
one, so that I can get a second-hand one.
Well, older hardware could be Ubiquiti NanoBridge M5.
Still, also PBE-M5-400 should work... Mah...
Ciao!
Ilario
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6 p.m.
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Thank you Ilario and Gio.
I keep being unable to change the firmware. Now I have tried with
Ilario's XW v5.5.10-u2 and again everything looks like flashing but,
after the apparent flashing, when the router boots, it boots again
with the firmware it had.
To sum up the long story, so far I have only been able to flash this
router once. I needed to downgrade from version 5.6 to 5.5. As I could
not find the 5.5 version on the Internet I contacted Ubiquiti support.
They asked why I wanted to change the firmware, I answered because I
wanted to install OpenWRT. Then they sent me a link so that I could
download the firmware I requested. That was v5.5.6 (XW), and that is
the only firmware I have been able to install so far.
Now when I contact them they say the do not support nor recommend
installing OpenWRT.
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Looking on the
internet doesn't look like there should be
problems, I don't understand. Maybe you can try to move from
AirOS 5.5.6 to another version, whatever you manage to find, e.g.
5.5.10, never never 5.6.x. I just looked on Ubiquiti website and
there's no 5.5.x image available to download so I uploaded two
old AirOS 5.5.x images I had on my pc, an XM image and an XW
image:
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
Maybe you can find official old download links on Web Archive...
On retroshare you can find ubnt images too
retroshare://file?name=XW.v5.5.10-
u2.28005.150723.1358.bin&size=6866199&hash=d4b1d0762eb2f992cf9ef379e89
retroshare://file?name=XM.v5.5.11.28002.150723.1344.bin&size=6896662&h
ash=ccb73fdf9c24f56870db2cf2e8a28e9febd61d15
retroshare://file?name=TI.v5.5.11.28002.150723.1518.bin&size=6589689&h
ash=3e7345eaa84083c37059f57f165ab08fec50d66b
Any suggestion? If I don't receive any
answer I will soon try
to get rid of this thingy.
Bruno suggestion is also a possibility, and for a world post-FCC
and pre-librerouter maybe is the only one. Have a look also at
lime-hwd-ground-routing package, could be useful for the setup he
suggests.
Does anyone know any working LiMe router more
unidirectional
than the NanoStation M5? I need something more unidirectional.
It does not have to be a new model. Actually, I prefer if it is
an old one, so that I can get a second-hand one.
Well, older hardware could be Ubiquiti NanoBridge M5. Still, also
PBE-M5-400 should work... Mah... Ciao! Ilario
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6:15 p.m.
2016-12-01 19:00 GMT+01:00 Amuza <amuza(a)riseup.net>et>:
I keep being unable to change the firmware. Now I have
tried with
Ilario's XW v5.5.10-u2 and again everything looks like flashing but,
after the apparent flashing, when the router boots, it boots again
with the firmware it had.
To sum up the long story, so far I have only been able to flash this
router once. I needed to downgrade from version 5.6 to 5.5. As I could
not find the 5.5 version on the Internet I contacted Ubiquiti support.
They asked why I wanted to change the firmware, I answered because I
wanted to install OpenWRT. Then they sent me a link so that I could
download the firmware I requested. That was v5.5.6 (XW), and that is
the only firmware I have been able to install so far.
This is getting even more strange.
You have a working AirOS XW 5.5.6 and you can't upgrade it to AirOS XW 5.5.10??
Wut... This makes no sense...
Can you try the upgrade to 5.5.10 also via tftp?
Something strange is happening here, maybe Ubiquiti backported their
image signature check (evil feature present in AC serie routers) to
5.5.6 and even their own old images are not passing the signature
check??
Now when I contact them they say the do not support
nor recommend
installing OpenWRT.
They are not responsive even if you tell them that you're trying to
upgrade from their 5.5.6 to a 5.5.10 you downloaded long time ago?
I suggest to enter the #openwrt channel on IRC freenode and ask there,
or post on OpenWrt/LEDE forum.
Let us know!!
Ilario
8 Dec
8 Dec
5:29 p.m.
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This is getting even more strange. You have a working
AirOS XW
5.5.6 and you can't upgrade it to AirOS XW 5.5.10??
Correct.
Wut... This makes no sense... Can you try the upgrade
to 5.5.10
also via tftp?
I did try. Again "Error code 2: Firmware check failed".
I did a hard reset too. No difference.
Something strange is happening here, maybe Ubiquiti
backported
their image signature check (evil feature present in AC serie
routers) to 5.5.6 and even their own old images are not passing the
signature check??
Maybe. But they would be lying. I asked if it was possible that the
v5.5.6 (XW) firmware they sent me was locked as it is every v5.6
firmware. They answered it is not locked.
> Now when I contact them they say the do not
support nor
> recommend installing OpenWRT.
They are not responsive even if you tell them that
you're trying
to upgrade from their 5.5.6 to a 5.5.10 you downloaded long time
ago?
They suggest to go for an RMA. They also said:
(12:03:37 AM) Stuart P.: If the upgrade is not happening then possibly
the memory is corrupted
I suggest to enter the #openwrt channel on IRC
freenode and ask
there, or post on OpenWrt/LEDE forum.
I used the OpenWRT forum
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=346102#p346102
I am done with it, I think I have tried everything. I will get rid of
this thingy and go for the Ubiquiti NanoBridge M5 you suggested.
Thank you all for the premium support!!
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