Hi All!  I am very intrested in setting up a number of nodes in the Montgomery County / Bucks area and have a number of sites to setup maybe 4 nodes.  I am also part of Montgomery County Races, and with PEMA (Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency) out of the Eastern District Office that serves 20 county's including Philadlephia, Delaware Co, etc.  I am looking to establish nodes at these locations and hopping that I will be able to get them setup and working.  Also, each of the locations has dedicated internet that we can plug into the nodes so that the Mesh will have access. 

Thanks!

Joe-AA3JC.

Thanks Mickey, the light has finally come on!  I actually own one of these routers and don't remember seeing that the 0.4.3 HSMM-MESH software was available for it.  Was it?  Now I'm going to have to add it to my growing collection of Broadband-Hamnet routers.  Don't use it for anything else since I gave up the account for it's AT&T PCMCIA 3G card.  Does the Broadband-Hamnet software connect to the 3G card if it is active?  Not that I'll probably ever reinstate it ever again.

Steve G./N4TTY

The WRT54G3G is an entirely different router.

Unfortunately, the WRT54G was so successful that Linksys made a whole lot of spinoffs and customized versions with confusingly similar names.  

Some are compatible, some are slightly different, some might be compatible, but haven't been figured out yet, some can be used, but require a different process, and some are known to be unusable. 

There might be a better way to document this on the web page, but that takes work, and you also run the risk of putting in so many words that it actually makes it more confusing.

Maybe there already is a net, but I was just thinking since the Mesh community is fairly wide spread maybe we could start a Dstar net weekly.  We could meet each other, and create a closer community, share knowledge and learn more about the new firmware, things like that.  

If there is interest we could, I'm sure, find a reflector to use and decide on a weeknight and time to meet up.  

Anyone have Dstar and some interest in a net for HSMM-MESH/Broadband Hamnet?

Currently this document does not exist.  In fact, a "cookbook recipe" will never exist.  There are far too many considerations needed to cover the various Linux (or whatever) distributions.  All of the complexity that has been removed from using the network has not gone away, it has just been transferred into the software that the routers run, thus making any set of instructions necessarily high level and the details will have to be worked out by the person interested in making any given platform work.

That being said, a set of high level descriptions will be coming at some unspecified time in the future.  However, the firmware is open source and freely downloadable from the svn repository.  Examining the contents of the files that have been laid on top of the stock OpenWRT firmware, and logging in to a running node through ssh, will give the sufficiently motivated person all they need to know to bring some other platform on to the mesh.

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ad5oo

This is described on the help page.  If the description is not adequate please let us know.

But I guess I am still confused by the bbhn-1.0.0-wrt54g3g.bin.  What is the "g3g?"  Could it mean model "G" but version 3.0 or greater (i.e. 3.0, 3.1, & 4.0)?  Maybe the text to the right could be updated to be a little more descriptive.

Steve G./N4TTY

And to be perfectly clear, your link goes to a page with no scroll bar on the right, so you see all the files. While the link on the home page brings up a page with a scroll bar (in my browser anyway) and I somehow overlooked the scroll bar and didn't see the remaining files and all the descriptions to the right of each file.

The light has come on!

Steve G./N4TTY

Isn't it clear from the right column of the Firmware Download Page?

How do you determine which of the two bin files (bbhn-1.0.0-wrt54g.bin and bbhn-1.0.0-wrt54g3g.bin) to use with each model of the WRT54 as shown in the "Shopping Guide?"  I had it figured out for the 0.4.3 files, but haven't discovered the secret for the bbhn files.

I'm trying to expand the "Simplified shopping list" to include the proper version of the bbhn.bin file with the listed model and version number of the WRT54.

Obviously if the WRT54 is already running 0.4.3 then it is best to just use the 'trx' file.

Steve G./N4TTY