hello This list a bit quiet, so here is a question for the experts: how difficult it is to port libremesh to the wrt54g? I see there is a openwrt version, but no libremesh. The chipset is not in the target list. Boa Vista de Acará network, near Belem in northern Brazil, got 10 of these routers from FreiFunk. I understand they used to run Tomato firmware in them. Thanks! Bruno -- bruno(a)pobox.com ▀─█▄██▄▀▄ http://brunovianna.net ─█▄██▄▀█▀█▄ skype: randomico▀─█▄██▄▀█▀█▄▌██─█▌█▌

Hi Bruno, Hi Gio, On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 11:41:00AM +0200, Gio wrote: True, but if I had a few dozends of them in a box, why not do something useful with them... It's a brcm47xx/legacy device which originally came with 4MB NOR flash and 32MB SDRAM. In later versions of the WRT54G the SDRAM was reduced to 16MB which really makes it pretty useful nowadays. However, Linksys then realized that an unexpected marked for those boxes has developed and made another 32MB SDRAM version of it called WRT54GL. If you got the 32MB version, the hardware is not that bad: * 120MHz BMIPS32 CPU * 802.11bgn Broadcom b43xx WiFi * managed Fast-Ethernet "Roboswitch" * many LEDs and two Buttons * unpopulated USB1.1 port hidden somewhere So before you start, check exactly which devices you got. If you got them somehow from Freifunk, I reckon they are either old 'WRT54G' with 32MB of SDRAM or the 32MB re-issue 'WRT54GL'. I guess libremesh doesn't officially support those old brcm47xx devices because we only got the proprietary WiFi driver working well on those boxes, and that's not so useful for LibreMesh (no 802.11s and only a single virtual interface, ie. *either* Ad-Hoc for meshing *or* Access Point, but not both). You may clone lime-sdk and add the target/subtarget yourself, ie. ``` git clone https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk.git cd lime-sdk # add the entry 'brcm47xx/legacy' to the list of supported targets echo "brcm47xx/legacy" >> targets.list # cook image for WRT54G ./cooker -c brcm47xx/legacy --flavor=lime_mini --profile=wrt54g ``` Probably still not the worst thing to do with those -- if they run well on WhiteRussian (very old OpenWrt with Kernel 2.4) or Tomato, why not just use them for that? Cheers Daniel _______________________________________________ lime-users mailing list lime-users(a)lists.libremesh.org https://lists.libremesh.org/mailman/listinfo/lime-users

Hi Bruno, Hi Gio, On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 11:41:00AM +0200, Gio wrote: True, but if I had a few dozends of them in a box, why not do something useful with them... It's a brcm47xx/legacy device which originally came with 4MB NOR flash and 32MB SDRAM. In later versions of the WRT54G the SDRAM was reduced to 16MB which really makes it pretty useful nowadays. However, Linksys then realized that an unexpected marked for those boxes has developed and made another 32MB SDRAM version of it called WRT54GL. If you got the 32MB version, the hardware is not that bad: * 120MHz BMIPS32 CPU * 802.11bgn Broadcom b43xx WiFi * managed Fast-Ethernet "Roboswitch" * many LEDs and two Buttons * unpopulated USB1.1 port hidden somewhere So before you start, check exactly which devices you got. If you got them somehow from Freifunk, I reckon they are either old 'WRT54G' with 32MB of SDRAM or the 32MB re-issue 'WRT54GL'. I guess libremesh doesn't officially support those old brcm47xx devices because we only got the proprietary WiFi driver working well on those boxes, and that's not so useful for LibreMesh (no 802.11s and only a single virtual interface, ie. *either* Ad-Hoc for meshing *or* Access Point, but not both). You may clone lime-sdk and add the target/subtarget yourself, ie. ``` git clone https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk.git (https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk.git) cd lime-sdk # add the entry 'brcm47xx/legacy' to the list of supported targets echo "brcm47xx/legacy" >> targets.list # cook image for WRT54G ./cooker -c brcm47xx/legacy --flavor=lime_mini --profile=wrt54g ``` Probably still not the worst thing to do with those -- if they run well on WhiteRussian (very old OpenWrt with Kernel 2.4) or Tomato, why not just use them for that? Cheers Daniel _______________________________________________ lime-users mailing list lime-users(a)lists.libremesh.org (mailto:lime-users@lists.libremesh.org) https://lists.libremesh.org/mailman/listinfo/lime-users (https://lists.libremesh.org/mailman/listinfo/lime-users)