Your notes will save me a whole heap of time trying to get WING working.
Thank you very much.
Regards
Paul Adams
On Mon, 04/11/2011 at 3:24am, "Ross Wakelin" <ross.wakelin@gmail.com> wrote:
> the ubiquity units I was using do not have wan ports, so I had to use
> the script.
>
> On 11 April 2011 22:13, Roberto Riggio <roberto.riggio@create-net.org> wrote:
>
>> Il 11/04/2011 11:55, Ross Wakelin ha scritto:
>>>
>>> Hi Roberto
>>
>> Hi
>>>
>>> At the end of this message I have put the steps I used to get wing
>>> going on the ubiquity
>>> rocket/bullet modules.
>>>
>>> I will go quiet on this list now, as the application I am aiming for
>>> needs the higher 802.11n data rates, so
>>> I will probably go back to 802.11s, and try to use classifies for QOS.
>>> When the mac drivers catch up
>>> with 802.11n, I might just come back to wing.
>>
>> I'm also testing 11s from time to time. To this point the biggest
>> disappointment was not being able to get high rate in 11n mode.
>> Basically even for a simple STA-AP configuration i get higher application
>> rates in 11g mode then in 11n mode.
>>
>>> Wing on Atheros SOC systems with OpenWrt
>>>
>>> Checkout the core OpenWrt repository
>>>
>>> svn co svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/ openwrt
>>>
>>> Download the radiotap patch from here and move it into
>>> openwrt/package/mac80211/patches,
>>> as file 811-radiotap.patch
>>> This patch is needed in order to enable support for injecting raw
>>> frames at arbitrary
>>> rates over an interface operating in monitor mode.
>>>
>>> Switch to the OpenWRT directory:
>>>
>>> cd openwrt
>>> Update the external packages feed and install the wing package:
>>>
>>> ./scripts/feeds update packages
>>> ./scripts/feeds install wing
>>> ./scripts/feeds install wing-extra
>>>
>>> make menuconfig
>>>
>>>
>>> Select the wing package and wing-extra that can be found into the
>>> Network section.
>>> Then leave the configuration interface selecting Yes when prompted if
>>> you want to save the configuration.
>>>
>>> Finally run:
>>>
>>> make defconfig&& make
>>>
>>> When the build process is finished, the resulting firmware and packages
>>> will be
>>> available in the openwrt/bin directory.
>>>
>>> Move the firmware to the target
>>> [for Ubiquity Bullet/Rocket systems:
>>> press and hold down the reset switch whilst connecting the
>>> ethernet cable with the POE connected
>>> keep the reset switch pressed until the four top LEDS begin
>>> to flash in alternate twos
>>> set your workstation to an address in the 192.168.1.x/24 subnet
>>> but not address 192.168.1.20, because that is the address
>>> of the wireless unit
>>> use tftp to upload the image
>>> tftp 192.168.1.20
>>> bin
>>> trace
>>> put
>>> openwrt-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-bullet-m-jffs2-factory.bin
>>> quit
>>> leave the radio unit to reboot (about 60 seconds), its new
>>> IP
>>> address will be 192.168.1.1
>>> ]
>>>
>>> Once running the new firmware, login using telnet and change a few files:
>>> /etc/config/wireless (this is for a bullet 5m, for a 2.4Ghz
>>> system, change the channels etc.)
>>>
>>> config 'wifi-device' 'phy0'
>>> option 'phy' 'phy0'
>>> option 'type' 'mac80211'
>>> option 'channel' '40'
>>> option 'country' 'US'
>>> option 'hwmode' '11na'
>>>
>>>
>>> config 'wifi-iface'
>>> option 'device' 'phy0'
>>> option 'mode' 'monitor'
>>>
>>>
>>> I also created a file called /etc/meshup and made it executable:
>>>
>>> iwconfig wlan0 channel 40
>>> route add default dev wing-mesh
>>> write_handler wr/gw.han_add 10.1.2.0/255.255.255.0
>>>
>>> chmod x /etc/meshup
>>>
>>> and then added this line to /etc/rc.d
>>> /etc/meshup
>>> just before the "exit 0" line
>>
>> Thanks. BTW, if you installed also the wing_extra package, you should
>> also have a new daemon in /etc/init.d/ called wing. This daemon checks
>> if Internet connectivity is available over the wan interface and basically
>> execute automatically the commands that you put in meshup.
>>
>> I have checked this only on alix and cambria boards.
>>
>> R.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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