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Has anyone managed to get openwrt on the brand new Nanostation m2 from Ubiquiti? I am a complete newbie so I am not really sure where to start.
I found the following page which explains how to do it on the original Nanostaion: http://intoverflow.wordpress.com/2008/1 … station-2/
Can anyone point me in the right direction please
Has anyone been able to get openwrt on this hardware? Im losing hope...
have you tried this :
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … actory.bin
Bring the unit in tftp mode (press reset button for a few seconds after power up) and upload to file to 192.168.1.20.
from linux console: tftp -m binary -v 192.168.1.20 -c put openwrt-ar71xx-ubnt-bullet-m-squashfs-factory.bin
from dos console: tftp -i 192.168.1.20 PUT openwrt-ar71xx-ubnt-bullet-m-squashfs-factory.bin
The Nanostation and Bullet Ms appear to use same CPU and memory amounts judging from the data sheets so the bullet-m image might work.
The unit may come up after flashing asking for an ip address to be assigned per dhcp and until given that may be not reachable for a telnet session.
Depends on the default network settings and whether the PoE ethernet interface is initialised as lan (static 192.168.1.1) or wan (dhcp).
Can of course later be changed by changing //etc/config/network
(Last edited by doddel on 8 Feb 2010, 00:04)
Is there any progress of bringing Backfire to the Nanostation (Loco) M2 and M5? There's still no mention of it in the ToH. Thanks!
Edit: Oh, I just found openwrt-ar71xx-ubnt-nano-m-squashfs-factory.bin in the ar71xx download section. Is this image intended for both M2 and M5 as well as loco and non-loco Nanostations? Is it still experimental or is it stable (aside from general Backfire 10.03.1 RC3 issues)? Any caveats?
(Last edited by penkert on 14 Nov 2010, 16:05)
I successfully loaded http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/1 … actory.bin on a NanoStation M5. Works well as far as I can tell. I haven't done extensive testing as I am trying to compile the latest trunk for it.
I'm using a custom image and works. Compiled for target ar7xxx with ath-9k wilreless driver enabled.
Are your Nanostation M2 device working ok? I have heard that some Nanostation devices have quite big performance penalty when using OpenWrt instead of AirOS. But I'm not sure that this includes also Nanostaion M2 Loco. So how are your Loco devices working? Have you done any benchmarks?
Are your Nanostation M2 device working ok? I have heard that some Nanostation devices have quite big performance penalty when using OpenWrt instead of AirOS. But I'm not sure that this includes also Nanostaion M2 Loco. So how are your Loco devices working? Have you done any benchmarks?
I never did any benchmarks. I believe there is a small performance penalty because you're losing ubiquiti's proprietary wireless protocols and going back to standards.
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