Hi Antonio,

I uploaded a new compat-wireless-2.6-o11s-0.4.2.tar.bz2 to o11s.org that
fixes that particular issue.

The problem was that it extracted to compat-wireless/ instead of
compat-wireless-2.6/ (that's what openwrt expects after applying
o11s-openwrt-r28087.diff).

Cheers,


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Antonio Anselmi >
> Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:37 AM
> Subject: openwrt 802.11s
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> Hello Javier,
>
> I'm Antonio Anselmi, creator and developer/maintainer of the project
> Robin Mesh, used in open-mesh.com routers OM1P and other AP51
> compatible devices.
> Some months ago, open-mesh.com decided to turn on their own (closed)
> fw -ng, based on batman-adv, and stop to support Robin. So, this
> summer, I founded my own company MeshRoot LLC, with a business partner
> (a regional ISP/WISP) in order to continue to support Robin Mesh
> firmware and develop our new mesh firmware ('meshroot-pro').
> Our firmware is based on backfire, uses olsrd for mesh routing at L3
> and fully supports 802.11n on dual-radio dual-band devices such as
> ubiquiti-RS. Basically, it uses ath9k and IBSS/adhoc mode for
> transport purposes on the first radio and ath9k APs for distribution
> purposes on the second radio.
>
> Anyway, *our main plan* is leave all the external routing protocols,
> either L3 and L2 as batman and olsr, and adopt the 802.11s mesh.
>
> In these days I'm testing an 802.11s network using ubiquiti RS
> dual-radio boards as nodes and plain backfire 10.03.1-rc5 images for
> ar71xx/ubnt-rs. The nodes mesh fine, I can ping all the peers and I'm
> able to get and explore mpath tables and dumps: quite good results
> indeed.
> One of the nodes is also connected to an external network by its eth0
> interface so I need to bring that node as a 'mesh gate' by setting
> some mesh_parameters  to advertise its presence on the mesh but
> unfortunately the needed parameter mesh_gate_announcements seems to be
> not available in the compat-wireless package coming aliong with
> backfire.
>
> So I went to o11s.org and found the interesting 'building OpenWrt'
> HowTo (http://o11s.org/trac/wiki/OpenWrtBuilding).
> I have to say anyway that it doesn't work, at least the revision I'm
> reading, 09/20/11: build fails due to a failed compat-wireless
> download (see below at the end of the email). I think the last patch
> in o11s-openwrt-r28087.diff file is wrong just because insers a wrong
> package name ior download path:
>
> --- package/mac80211/Makefile   (revision 28079)
> +++ package/mac80211/Makefile   (working copy)
> @@ -10,10 +10,11 @@
>
>  PKG_NAME:=mac80211
>
> -PKG_VERSION:=2011-08-10
> +#PKG_VERSION:=2011-08-10
> +PKG_VERSION:=2.6
>  PKG_RELEASE:=2
>  PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources
> -PKG_MD5SUM:=fb2ee04eaafbdf4117c475ba78f8f5b9
> +#PKG_MD5SUM:=fb2ee04eaafbdf4117c475ba78f8f5b9
>
>  PKG_SOURCE:=compat-wireless-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
>  PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(KERNEL_BUILD_DIR)/compat-wireless-$(PKG_VERSION)
>
> Anyway, the stuff it's not so clear to me: I added
> compat-wireless-2.6-o11s-0.4.2.tar.bz2 to openwrt/dl so why I should
> also download the backfire compat-wireless package? Moreover, the
> .diff file works on the  o11s compat-wireless or on the backfire one?
>
> Any hint and help will be very apreciated, I apologize for emailing
> you directly instead of using the mailing list (I'll subscribe the
> developer list...)
> Thanks for your time and great work!
>
> Antonio Anselmi
>
> ==ERROR MESSAGES FROM BUILD ==
> --2011-10-27 12:48:54--
> http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
> Resolving mirror2.openwrt.org... 46.4.11.11
> Connecting to mirror2.openwrt.org|46.4.11.11|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 2011-10-27 12:48:55 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> Download failed.
> --2011-10-27 12:48:55--
> http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
> Resolving mirror2.openwrt.org... 46.4.11.11
> Connecting to mirror2.openwrt.org|46.4.11.11|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 2011-10-27 12:48:55 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> Download failed.
> --2011-10-27 12:48:55--
> http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
> Resolving downloads.openwrt.org... 78.24.191.177
> Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org|78.24.191.177|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 2011-10-27 12:48:56 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> Download failed.
> No more mirrors to try - giving up.
>
>
>
> --
> Javier Cardona
> cozybit Inc.
> http://www.cozybit.com
>
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