Re: [vt-dev] Generic OpenWRT on Mesh Potato

[Song, Stephen]

Hi Denver,

On 29 April 2013 07:38, Denver <den...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey there,

I've recently had the privilege of working with a mesh potato. After gaining access via openwrt failsafe, I saw it was running a minimal customised OpenWRT install compiled from scratch and utilising olsr for mesh stuff.

As I don't intend to use the ATA, can I flash the generic Atheros ar2317 openwrt-atheros-vmlinux.lzma and openwrt-atheros-root.squashfs to the MP? I'm just wanting to use it in STA/AP mode. If I don't hear anything, I'll go ahead and try, and report back :)

yes you can.  the only thing you'll lose is the ATA.  It should behave like a standard AR2317 AP.

Cheers... S

 

I did have a quick look at the config files in the source repository, and it looked like they were using the atheros target.

Kind regards,

Denver

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[elektra]

Hi -

> yes you can. the only thing you'll lose is the ATA. It should behave like
> a standard AR2317 AP.

I can confirm that generic Openwrt images for the Atheros platform work as expected.

Cheers,
Elektra


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[Denver]

Thank you both for responding and for confirming this,

Kind regards,
Denver

[Charles Wyble]

Which generic image should be used? I had problems with generic, but scen worked beautifully.

elektra <onel...@gmx.net> wrote:

Hi - 

yes you can.  the only thing you'll lose is the ATA.  It should behave like
a standard AR2317 AP.

I can confirm that generic Openwrt images for the Atheros platform work as expected.

Cheers,
Elektra

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[Song, Stephen]

Hi Charles,

Unless I am mistaken, it is generic Atheros firmware

http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09-rc2/atheros/generic/openwrt-atheros-vmlinux.lzma

http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09-rc2/atheros/generic/openwrt-atheros-root.squashfs

That is what is recommended for the DIR-300 which is based on the same AR2317 chipset as the Mesh Potato.

Cheers... Steve

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