I'm curious if anyone else has already done this or been Interested in doing this?

To me it seems a lot more attractive to do this on Atheros equipment such as Engenius' EOC-2611

or the ubquiti stuff.. the radios are much better performers.. with far more functionality..

200-600mW output power and (significantly)  better rx sensitivity 5MHz narrow band channel modes and they are software controllable to go in the ham band... no hardware mods or crystal change needed.

5MHz channel mode let's you use it exclusively in the ham band below channel 1 and further improve s/n.

What gives here?! :-)

Is there enough interest around here to help me roll out an Atheros hardware based flashable firmware version on HSMM-MESH?

What about interoping DD-WRT's OLSR to play with existing HSMM-MESH stations?

DD-WRT seems to come eith OLSR but it's half hearted untested and does not even include a config file to get started with.

Oh and greetings! I'm Steve (N8LBV) in the Ann Arbor/Detroit Michigan area.

I just flashed 4 WRT-54gx's they work great and 2 Windows XP OLSR switch installations..

Am taking all to a 4 day ham radio family camping & activity trip in Lupton/MI this week.

We will cover the entire camp property and guest center with these 6 stations as we did successfully at last year's event.

See http://sectionouting.info

Also I'm sharing a live view into what we are playin with at: http://iridium2.michiganbroadband.com:1978 (good year BTW) and http://iridium2.michiganbroadband.com:8080 <-- that will be back later today.

Thanks for your reading & possibly your help on this!!

Steve Gladden N8LBV

Steve,

This is a topic of extreme interest to the developers and progress is being made. CPU byte ordering problems appear to have been a major issue. Check out this under development post for more.

73,

Keith Stevenson - AJ4KI

For those not on the development mailing list:

Fellow Meshers (messy or neat),

FYI, FWIW, IYGARA.... I have come to state that the issue with the
secure plugin not working across different CPU byte-orderings has finally
been fixed. This code has been running on my home mesh for over a month
now and I have just committed my changes into the official OLSR source
code respository on the olsr.org website.

Alas, this really doesn't help those of us working on the Ubiquiti and
other hardware because my changes compile to null functions on that
equipment. The real 'relief' will come when my fixes are incorporated
into the HSMM-MESH firmware for the WRT54G{,S,L} hardware as *THEY*
were the real "problem children" on this issue (x86 PCs and ARM-based
hardware was too).

But be forewarned!! When this patch/upgrade happens, it will be like
what happened when we went from version 0.3.x to version 0.4.x in that
different firmware versions will not mesh with each other.

At this point what has to happen is to get my changes incorporated into
the HSMM-MESH code base. Also, those in control of the source code will
need to decide when and how to bring out this fix.

Have a happy and safe 4th of July, y'all!!!

 -Rusty-