Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Michel Daggelinckx]

Ubuntu 12.04 has batmand in the repo's.

Does this mean an ubuntu server can be used as a supernode/gateway ?

Michel

[Elektra]

Hi -

> Ubuntu 12.04 has batmand in the repo's.
>
> Does this mean an ubuntu server can be used as a supernode/gateway ?

do you mean batmand or batman-adv?

Cheers,
Elektra

[VT ScrollKeeper]

batmand is there
batman-adv is not.

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Michel

VT Scroll Keeper

[Elektra]

Hi -

> batmand is there
> batman-adv is not.

batman-adv is a kernel module, which should be already present on your Ubuntu machine. You can load it with "modprobe batman-adv". To control it, you have to install the batctl utility, i.e. perform "apt-get install batctl".

Note there are different versions of both the kernel module and the utility, as the developers are steadily working on improving batman-adv. You can always download the sources from http://open-mesh.net and compile the version you want to use / have to use to be compatible, if the version in Ubuntu just isn't what you want.

In case you don't have the necessary prerequisites installed to compile software / external kernel modules, "apt-get install build-essential" will install the necessary bits.

Cheers,
Elektra

[VT ScrollKeeper]

nice,

will batman or batman advance work with any wifi card or do i need s
special one.

[Elektra]

Hi -

> will batman or batman advance work with any wifi card or do i need s
> special one.

the WiFi interface needs to operate stable in ad-hoc (peer-to-peer) mode. At the moment your best bet is a Atheros-based PCI or PCI-Express card with 802.11n support. Other cards probably also work, but might not be 100% stable. Unfortunately USB WiFi devices often have problems, stable ad-hoc support is firmware dependent. USB dongle firmware is usually closed source - which results in problems that can't be fixed by the open source community. Hardly any chipset manufacturer invests time and money into serious testing of WiFi devices in ad-hoc mode.

Cheers,
Elektra

[Joe Bunefa]

I have Engenius EOC5611P which i want to use as my supernode gateway. will this be OK and  can i flash batman on that too. Sorry, iam just trying to prepare more while waiting for my MPs to arrive next week. Also can batman be installed too.

Cheers,

joe 

[Song, Stephen]

Hi Joe,

As Sjur said in the FB group.  If it runs OpenWRT, and it does appear to, then you should be able to install and configure batman-adv.  That should be 99% of what you need.

Cheers... Steve

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[Joe Bunefa]

Thanks Steve, iam currently out so i will be playing around tonight
with the device and let the forum know how iam going. Currently, iam
working around Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

cheers,
joe

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[Elektra]

Hi Joe -

the device has been discussed on the Openwrt mailing list in February:

https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2012-February/013866.html

Obviously the person submitting the patch had this device working.

I suppose it is working now with Openwrt trunk (development snapshot).

The device does not appear in the table of supported hardware on the Openwrt site yet. Which is fine, because the list is not necessarily in sync with the devices that are only supported by development snapshots. However, the chipsets (there are actually two) used in it are supported and RAM and flash are sufficient.

It is an interesting device and moderately priced for a dual band outdoor unit. So please let us know how it goes.

Cheers,
Elektra