[wsfii-discuss] WasabiNet mesh in St. Louis appeared on local TV news!

Thu Oct 28 16:51:09 UTC 2010

problem is that AirOS does not support adhoc/ahdemo mode, at least the
latest v5.2.1.
We maybe have to wait for 5.3 ?

Antonio

2010/10/28 Alexander List <alex at list.priv.at>:
> Ben,
>
> equinox in Graz did some work to get OLSR support into the Ubiquiti AirOS
> and even integrate OLSR configuration with the AirOS UI...
>
> https://wiki.graz.funkfeuer.at/UbntStations
>
> Alex
>
> On 10/27/2010 08:48 PM, Ben West wrote:
>
> Hi Ulf,
> We are using the (OpenWRt-based, with OLSR) ROBIN firmware available from
> open-mesh.com ron all 2.4GHz devices.  We do this since the OM dashboard is
> really handy  The access points are Open Mesh OM1Ps, a couple Ubiquiti
> Bullet2HPs, a Nanostation2, and a large smattering of Engenuis EOC-1650 and
> EOC-2160 for cost reasons.
> There are about 4 active nodes right now, out of 49 provisioned.  Most nodes
> just use the integrated antenna or 7dB dipoles, although there are now a
> couple cantennas in place.
> https://dashboard.open-mesh.com/overview2.php?id=wasabinet
> Pictures:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/wasabinetsupport/WasabiNetInstallation
> http://picasaweb.google.com/wasabinetsupport/WasabiNetOnYourRooftop
> I am happy to hear that reflashing the small Ubiquitis is getting easier.
>  I've actually had some limited success doing on-the-fly firmware upgrades
> on the Bullet2HP with the ROBIN firmware, tho I have to SSH into the device
> and trigger an upgrade manually.
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Ulf Kypke-Burchardi <ulf at jewel-box.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> hi ben, very cool, congratulations for you great community wireless
>> project.
>> how many nodes are in the olsr cloud?
>> i saw in the news, you are running ubnt hardware, so if you use olsr, you
>> are using openwrt on it?
>> just yesterday we (some freifunker) finished working on a modified
>> bootloader for the nanostation 2 and bullet 2 to have a bootwait to get
>> access to the bootloader for upgrading firmware
>> no more reset button pressing on rooftops for upgrading!
>> good luck for your fiber uplink,
>> cheers
>> ulf kypke from berlin
>>
>>
>> On 10/27/10 7:26 AM, Ben West wrote:
>>
>> KSDK, a local TV station, recorded this interview with Minerva and myself
>> in May about our OLSR-based wifi mesh in St. Louis, MO USA.  They finally
>> aired it earlier this month, in anticipation of Google announcing their
>> plans for 1Gbit fiber deployments in this country later this year.
>> The WasabiNet KSDK video from 10/14 is now on Youtube!
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pDpUpRT6ZM
>> I will be gradually posting this link everywhere I can, but feel free
>> to share it yourselves!
>> (P.S. Yes, I did have some caffeine that day.)
>> More about WasabiNet: http://gowasabi.net
>> --
>> Ben West
>> westbywest at gmail.com
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