[OpenWrt-Devel] Problem with a piggyback Wifi deployment ..

2011-01-16 Thread Robert Chan
Hi all, I am implementing a piggy-back style 2-hop Wifi deployment (2-hop is all we need, so we don’t need mesh) with two TP-Link 741. What I did is the following: clientA --- TPLinkA-TPLinkB --- clientB The TPLinkA and TPLinkB are installed with backfire and are configured to run in AP

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Problem with a piggyback Wifi deployment ..

2011-01-16 Thread Robert Chan
. You really have 4 radios to deal with since the packets of client b will affect client a when tp a has to handle naks and the like, right next to tp b. Have you tried one tp instead of 2. You might see throughput reduced by 1/3rd instead of 1/2. On Jan 16, 2011 9:42 AM, Robert Chan

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Problem with a piggyback Wifi deployment ..

2011-01-16 Thread Robert Chan
. You really have 4 radios to deal with since the packets of client b will affect client a when tp a has to handle naks and the like, right next to tp b. Have you tried one tp instead of 2. You might see throughput reduced by 1/3rd instead of 1/2. On Jan 16, 2011 9:42 AM, Robert Chan

[OpenWrt-Devel] How do I connect my Windows XP machine to the mesh (802.11s) network?

2010-09-20 Thread Robert Chan
Hi all, I apologize for this dumb question, and it could have been ask million of times (but I just can't find the right keywords to search for the right answers) I finally created my mesh network based on backfire. The MPs can ping each other and see each other in iw dev mesh station

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] How do I configure mesh networking (802.11s) in LUCI?

2010-09-17 Thread Robert Chan
AM, Robert Chan wrote: Hi all, Based on the great help from this group, I have finally managed to install OpenWRT on my router with mesh support (selected in kernel_menuconfig). However, I cannot find any mesh (or 802.11s) related menu in Luci. So do I need to configure mesh in Luci at all

[OpenWrt-Devel] How do I configure mesh networking (802.11s) in LUCI?

2010-09-16 Thread Robert Chan
Hi all, Based on the great help from this group, I have finally managed to install OpenWRT on my router with mesh support (selected in kernel_menuconfig). However, I cannot find any mesh (or 802.11s) related menu in Luci. So do I need to configure mesh in Luci at all? If so, where in Luci

[OpenWrt-Devel] Luci doesn't load ... why?

2010-09-14 Thread Robert Chan
Hi all, I tried to build backfire from the fresh source, but Luci doesn't load (i.e., I can't connect to 192.168.1.1) after flashing. But failsafe works. I only changed the target to TP-Link tl-wr741nd v1. What else do I need to enable luci? Thanks very much in advance. Regards,

[OpenWrt-Devel] Is there a way to verify an image before flashing it to the route (and bricking it)?

2010-09-13 Thread Robert Chan
Hi all, Honestly, I had already bricked 2 routers (TP-Link 1043ND and 741ND). What I did was that I compiled the images from the source, and then upload them to the routers. Sometimes they work. However, in two of the instances, I changed some options, and . bricked the routers (even the

[OpenWrt-Devel] What is difference in config between the fresh source (right after SVN checkout) and the pre-build image?

2010-09-13 Thread Robert Chan
Hi all, Sorry for asking so many beginner questions in this group and thanks for the great help this far. I notice that the size of the image built with the fresh source (i.e. built from the SVN check-out without any modification in the configurations) and the size of the pre-built image

[OpenWrt-Devel] How do I know whether mesh networking (pre-802.11s) is really enabled?

2010-09-11 Thread Robert Chan
Hi all, I have managed to build backfire with mesh networking (802.11s) enabled. However, how do I configure openwrt to use it? Or how do I even know whether it is really enabled? I can't find any field on luci that indicates the working of mesh networking, though. Thanks very much in

[OpenWrt-Devel] Does the pre-built images on the openwrt.org site contain support for mesh networking (pre-802.11s)?

2010-09-06 Thread Robert Chan
Dear all, I am just wondering if the pre-built images (e.g., openwrt-ar71xx-tl-wr741nd-v1-squashfs-factory.bin http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-tl-wr741n d-v1-squashfs-factory.bin ) on the openwrt.org site contain support for mesh networking (pre-802.11s)?

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Backfire build failed -- undefined reference to `ar71xx_add_device_dsa'

2010-09-05 Thread Robert Chan
...@lists.openwrt.org [mailto:openwrt-devel-boun...@lists.openwrt.org] On Behalf Of Robert Chan Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 6:03 PM To: openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org Subject: [OpenWrt-Devel] Backfire build failed -- undefined reference to `ar71xx_add_device_dsa' Dear all, I am trying

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Backfire build failed -- undefined reference to `ar71xx_add_device_dsa'

2010-09-05 Thread Robert Chan
or my TL-WR941ND? The last thing I want to see is to load an incorrect image into the router and brick it. Please help. Regards, Robert. From: openwrt-devel-boun...@lists.openwrt.org [mailto:openwrt-devel-boun...@lists.openwrt.org] On Behalf Of Robert Chan Sent: Sunday, September