Hello mesh folks,
I took some donated Sparky boards from Noisebridge with the intention to
use them as wireless sensor nodes (environmental monitoring, etc) but
while I can get OpenWRT installed I run into problems with the hardware
watchdog rebooting the device every 5 minutes. It looks like OpenWRT
includes support for the ar2315 watchdog but something isn't working.
Have you all found a solution or workaround for this?
Thanks, dana
*A note on hacknights, flows and collaboration:*
*We typically start around 7:30 with a go-around of brief introductions and
updates on what we've been working on and/or what we plan to work on that
night.
*I'd like to suggest a Check-in around 10pm to provide opportunity for
people to a) feel comfortable leaving if they want to, and b) receive
feedback on whatever it is they've been working on.
*Would also like to encourage people to task themselves publicly by adding
Action Items to the notes
*And to link dump indiscriminately!
Reposted for posterity at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/12_December_2013 -
edit at will
Attendees
- Deekoo, Jeremy, Jenny, Maxb, Marc, Daniel, Deekoo, Xavier, Luis
Updates
- Jenny and Matt went to SF State to give a presentation on Sudomesh to
a computer networking for business students class. Went well! It was 40
minutes long and there was a lot of eye contact! No sleeping in the back!!
- For future presentations we could set up a mesh!
- Internships!
- Prof is interested in tinkering with 802.11s + library in a box
- MaxB working on the build server & firmware generator - ready to do a
new walkthrough for creating nodes
- Deekoo has gotten the Nanostation working (can pick up MonkeyBrains
5GHz from 2 miles away!), Nanobridge not working, wants to do range testing
- We could run the PoE off of old laptop batteries! Mounted on a
pedicab! Bandwidth/speed test + spectrum analysis
- Luis is working on setting up / learning about BATMAN, interested in
working on client-side interfaces
- Jeremy + Daniel did a bunch of video interviews this past weekend!
Interested in education + outreach
- Daniel applied for us to receive a donation of 3 racks, 13/14 hard
drives
- Jenny + Matt + Mitar spoke with Ralf from Internet Archive - Notes to
be put on wiki - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Meetings
- Marc has been finishing up the node configurator, let's test it on a
router tonight!
- Also working on stickers with basic info such as private SSID +
password, admin login info
- Xavier interested in applications of mesh for activism
Ideas
- Add a link on the site for "I'd like to get an intro to the mesh"
- Talk to technology coordinators in schools
- Local applications still in need of a portal page; Luis wants to help
design the frontend
- Tech Support: Send or bring us your router and we'll give you a node
- Daniel suggests a block party to test the range of the mesh!
- Talk to people who own properties about mounting nodes on the
rooftops.
- Inspiration from the FNF - convinced the owner of a housing complex
to provide free Wi-Fi, after which point the chronically empty apartments
were filled!
Checkins
- Chris has a pretty sweet CAD design for a 3D printed enclosure for the
Sparkys!
- Deekoo tested most of our 5GHz routers - 3 Nanobridges working
[Checked out one], 2 not working [plz edit with correct data]
- Jenny reading Cook Report interviews w/ Altermundi & FNF folks:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Interviews_with_other_meshers#Altermundi_Int…
- MaxB compiling..
- Firmware generator is ready to roll! playing nicely with the node
configurator
- https://github.com/sudomesh/openwrt-firmware-config
- Juul tweaking node configurator
- https://github.com/sudomesh/node-configurator
- Scattered brainstorms
Action Items
- Jenny to put Internet Archive and SFSU notes on wiki:
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/InternetArchive
-
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Presentations#Professor_Sameer_Verda.27s_Wir…
- Jenny update To Dos & Add Meetings/Presentations to Nav
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Meeting
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Presentations
- Daniel & Jeremy to edit video / do more interviews [Sunday]
- Marc to test node configurator on a pico
- Matt and Jenny to revamp presentation
Linkdump
- East Bay Broadband Consortium<http://www.ebbroadband.org/action_plan.asp>
- East Bay Connects helps people find affordable broadband
services<http://www.eastbayconnects.com/>
- MileMesh project starting up in Hoboken, NJ <http://www.milemesh.com/>
- Koruza prototype can be 3D printed! (optical wireless networks aka
LASERS!) <https://dev.wlan-si.net/wiki/KORUZA/Prototype>
- COOK Report on the Global Free Network
Movement<http://blog.altermundi.net/media/uploads/nov-dec_2013_crpp.pdf>-
Jenny's
Excerpts<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Interviews_with_other_meshers#Altermundi_Int…>
- PHP Network Weathermap <http://www.network-weathermap.com>
- LibreMap being actively developed :) <https://github.com/libremap>
- Altermundi documentation (in Spanish) <http://docs.altermundi.net/>
- Altermundi projects <https://colectivo.altermundi.net/projects>
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Jenny
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-Laurie Anderson
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-Hannah Arendt
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It would seem we should maybe keep funding opportunities off-list (private
email or at meetings), but thanks for the heads up, Ryan!
On Dec 4, 2013 1:18 PM, "Charles N Wyble" <charles(a)knownelement.com> wrote:
> Should we apply for this?
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> Via BoingBoing, a $10k technology
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Got it! Thanks!
Somebody <somebody(a)riseup.net> wrote:
>Hello, is there a phone # for peoplesopen.net that I can use on a donation request form? Filling up the form now. It will be great if I can get the number ASAP, if there is one.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Daniel
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Hello, is there a phone # for peoplesopen.net that I can use on a donation request form? Filling up the form now. It will be great if I can get the number ASAP, if there is one.
Thanks,
Daniel
The NanoBridge doesn't show up on the lan at all for me - if I turn it on,
usually the switch will have no link light and the feedhorn will have a link
light; unplugging and replugging cables will sometimes switch this. Other
lights appear to go on correctly (power, reds and oranges if I reset it).
The NanoBridge and NanoStation spec sheets says they expect 24v 0.5A PoE,
while the injectors I've got are 15v 0.8a, which is what the PicoStation
wants. (The wiring is the same either way, pairs 4,5+ and 7,8 return.)
The NanoStation is fine on a 15v 0.8A injector, though.
Compiling for ar71xx gets me a binary that runs on the NanoStation. Woot!
Haven't yet been able to get the NanoStation radio into master mode, though.
IIRC someone was working on open-source drivers for it under FreeBSD - what's
the status of that?
It looks like part of my patch is in the official firmware, but not all of
it - the tweaks to telnetd and ntp hotplug aren't in.
HTTP interface feedback: (running a bastard hybrid of my
firmware and the github version, as of Dec 6):
The default hostname is picostation-juul, regardless of actual hardware
platform.
On initial HTTP connection to a passwordless router, I get both a
'No password set!' message instructing me to go to password configuration
and an 'Authorization Required' dialog.
The intuitive behaviour for me was to enter desired username and password
in the big fat boxes, when apparently the CORRECT thing was
to click 'Go to password configuration': which redirects to the
identical-appearing page http://10.0.0.237/cgi-bin/luci/admin/system/admin
At that point, I'm supposed to ignore 'Go to password configuration' and
instead log in, at which point I'll have both the auth config screen and
a message admonishing me to go to password configuration.
When you scroll down to the bottom and click 'Save and apply', you get
a very small notification that the password has been changed and a large
'Applying changes' animation that was still running a couple hours later.
ps showed no obvious sign of any processes related to the 'Applying changes'
message, though I might have missed something.
Typing your password twice (this time, on an actual picostation) and then
pressing enter deletes your dropbear settings. Bad from a usability
perspective. The deletion also appears to be persistent, while the big
save buttons at the bottom would suggest that dropbear changes wouldn't
take effect until you save & apply.
Recommendations:
1) Take the user straight to passphrase configuration if they try to admin
a router without a passphrase set.
2) Passphrase configuration should be just passphrase configuration; dropbear
should have its own page.
3) Status reports should be prominent and not interleaved with the
rest of the design.
4) Links should be underlined and coloured; bold alone is too subtle.
5) Call it 'passphrase' rather than 'password', so we get more correct horse
battery staples and fewer swordfish.
