Recap of last night and some links

[Dave Menninger]

A handful of us were at the Hive13 meeting last night and talked about
what we want to accomplish.

* get hardware
** Mike (lastname?) is going to try cincinnati computer cooperative to
see if they have a pile of routers they want to get rid of
** Dave will continue to try to acquire WRT54GL's from ebay, craigslist, etc

* once we have around 3 nodes, we want to get together and make them
link up to prove we can do that part
** B.A.T.M.A.N seems like the thing we want to get working

* Brandon is going to set up an OpenWRT build environment

* after that, move on to more interesting things
** longer range links
** neighborhood nets
** alternative power sources
** point to point connections
** higher power stuff in HAM frequencies

Here are some of the places I've been looking around lately. Feel
free to share more links.

* http://hsmm-mesh.org
* http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
* https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/Emergent_Network_Field_Day

~Dave

[Mark]

I just got a WRT54GS and was able to get dd-wrt running on it. Can
anyone recommend a guide to get BATMAN running, preferably building on
my dd-wrt experiences?

[Dave Menninger]

Mark,

Nice job. I tried to get dd-wrt on my WRT54GS and failed. I think to
get BATMAN on there, it might be easier to use OpenWRT instead. I'm
not sure.

In other news I obtained a WRT54GL from eBay and am going to try to
flash it tonight or tomorrow.

Progress!

~Dave

[shadoxx]

The way to get BATMAN on these is to use OpenWRT and compile the kernel module into custom firmware. Working on it. :)