Hey folks,

Glad to see something going on with HSMM-Mesh in our area, even though we're a bit of distance apart.  I'm involved with a very active ARES group here in Hardin County, and we're just beginning to look at the possibilities of meshed networks for emergency comms with and between some of our served agencies.

I'm a network and Linux geek for a living, and have been using DD-WRT on a few routers for several years.  Excited to know that the Ham community has jumped on this concept and is putting it to work!  I have a couple test nodes set up to test with, and many others in our group are itching to get started and see how it can serve our ARES as well.  Hope to have a quick "proof of concept" presentation to the whole group at our next meeting a week from tonight.

I appreciate all the work that you guys and the rest of the folks here on the forum have done, and would love to have you guys the Henderson/Evansville group as a resource as far as finding out what works well and what may not work so great with implementing this.  Take care, and keep up the good work!

73, Doug, K4EK

Hi this is my first attempt at making a mesh node and have run into trouble. I had DDWRT on the router and flashed it to the hsmm-mesh-0.4.3wrt300n_v1.bin and I have lost connectivity with the lan ports to my pc. Also all the front lights are now lit up steady. The router is a WRT-300N v1.1

Is there a way out of this?

Hi this is my first attempt at making a mesh node and have run into trouble. I had DDWRT on the router and flashed it to the hsmm-mesh-0.4.3wrt300n_v1.bin and I have lost connectivity with the lan ports to my pc. Also all the front lights are now lit up steady. The router is a WRT-300N v1.1

Is there a way out of this?

Hello I would want to know if this would be possible with HSMM-MESH.

If hosting a website in my local network can be accessible to other nodes users ?

• I have DNS pointing to something that is hosted on my home network. For example, you may have a security camera that has a domain attached to it (e.g. camera.example.com), and it’s accessed from both on and off your network. Using DNSMasq on your router you can make the domain, camera.example.com, point to the internal IP of the camera so that anyone who accesses that camera from within your network won’t have to rely on external DNS getting resolved.
• Testing a new version of my own website, but want to make sure it will work fine with the live domain. Can DNSMasq work on my node.
• I want to create DNS for a site that is accessible using only a single word, such as intranet. Companies do this kind of thing all the time where an internal-only website can be reached without needing or wanting a publicly-accessible URL. But I want it to be accessible to other nodes users.

How can I accomplish the above bullet points ?

Thanks,

Chris

Pulled out the routers last night to do some tinkering after not doing anything

for a few months.

Installed Linphone on both Ubuntu 10.04 LTS laptops and then opened the

ports that Linphone needed.

Got that working along with port 80 access to each laptop.

Have no idea about video using Linphone yet. No cameras for the laptops.

Now to figure out what else I want to try, maybe teamspeak?

James W8ISS

Yes, if localnode:8080 doesnt work, then try the IP direct.

If that DOES work, then try http://localnode.austin.tx.us.mesh:8080

If that (or NODENAME.austin.,tx.us.mesh) works, then you will need to add the DNS suffix to your windows networking (thew austin.tx.us.mesh) to get everything to jive every time.

It shouldnt affect any regular LAN/internet operations for the PC.

KTF

Thanks for the hint on the refurbs!! Just received my brand new WRT54GL from Amazon.com today - had so much fun with it so far, ordered up 2 more refurbs from Linksys.

Soon, *very* soon, Casper, WY will be on the map.

What time?  I may want to go to it.

Arghhh! The forum settings are messed-up -- if I don't Preview it deletes my text and flashes an error message across the top. Sigh. Thanks for your encouraging post. We were only able to test in Austin & due to an unplanned change of hotels were stuck in a fringe location with a peaked-metal covered roof outside the window -- no signals. Sigh. I have requested permission to test a pair of HSMM-Mesh routers at the SET this Saturday in Statesboro, GA.

It looks like it's more work than what it's worth at this point in time.  I have not done it yet, but from first looks and thinking about it, trying to interface a newer build of openwrt with an older build seems like it can create problems.

My unofficial opinion would be to wait until a newer version of HSMM-MESH is released that runs off of the Backfire or (if we can get there) Attitude Adjustment release.  I'm not saying that it cannot be done, it just looks like it's still in the development stages.

I have done that.

I was able to log in and put my call sign in after the initial upgrade.

After reboot with my call sight "installed" I can no longer log in.

I have reset my network adaptor several times, and reset the router several times.

The computer sees it, but http://localnode:8080 gives a timeout on 3 different browsers on 2 different computers.

Brian

Please see:

http://www.hsmm-mesh.org/documentation/68-firmware-installation-instructions.html

Then go to #3 in the instructions.

KTF