-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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:

On 06/11/16 12:12, Ilario Gelmetti 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... Thank you!

On 07/11/16 12:52, Ilario wrote: Terrific! I will downgrade to 5.5 and then I'll try with the "bullet" image from the Chef. Thanks. 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

2016-11-16 23:31 GMT+01:00 Amuza <amuza(a)riseup.net>et>: 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

On 20/11/16 21:17, Amuza 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

On 28/11/16 12:45, bruno vianna wrote: 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! 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!

On Wednesday 30 November 2016 11:14:36 Ilario wrote: 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

2016-12-01 19:00 GMT+01:00 Amuza <amuza(a)riseup.net>et>: 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?? 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