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How to make batman-d (or equivalent) work on a TP-Link WR703n using SECN firmare 1.7

2 min 47 sec ago
Hello everyone

I have spent more than too weeks trying to do this on my own but I am
throwing the towel and asking for help.

How can I configure batman-d after flashing the TP-link with openwrt-
ar71xx-generic-tl-wr703n-v1-SN 1_7-squashfs-factory.bin from the SECN
branch.

Out of the box, that firmware has a corrupt batman-adv configuration

Roaming

2 min 47 sec ago
Hi All
I wonder if anyone has set up roaming between nodes. Or tested this.
I have some plain wifi voip phones which I would like to add to the SECN
mesh.
I can register these to one of the asterisk on the SECN MP's. The wifi
phone could connect to the mesh ssid (infrastructure not sure if they do
adhoc).

TP-Link vs Linksys

2 min 47 sec ago
Hello All,
If you were given the responsability to decide between TP Link or
Linksys for a large mesh deployment (500 Houses)
knowing that, you have first to customise the OS.
you have to install in the TP link or Linksys :

- Openwrt,DHCP,DNS,
- Raduis server, database
- Asterisk
- webserver with a social application

ARM based Linux box

2 min 47 sec ago
Hello All
For those interested in small Linux appliances, I recently had the
opportunity to see one of the Genesi units in operation.
[link]
Price $139 US delivered running Ubuntu 10.10
Brief specs:
- Freescale i.MX515<[link]>(ARM

Fwd: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Announcing the Wireless Battle Mesh v5 (26th of March - 1st of April 2012, Athens, Greece)

2 min 47 sec ago
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     Announcing the Wireless Battle Mesh v5
  (26th of March - 1st of April 2012, Athens, Greece)
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Question about large scale network simulation/emulation of original BATMAN source code

2 min 47 sec ago
Dear all,
We are from Georgia State University, Atlanta. I have some question
about large scale network simulation/emulation of original BATMAN source
code, hoping that this might have been required in some of your project.
We are concerned whether there is any proven way of showing that batmand

link local IP (zeroconf/avahi)

2 min 47 sec ago
I just caught the Floss Weekly episode[1]. Great stuff. I overheard
that you guys require the user to set an IP address to do VoIP. Have you
thought about using link local IPs[2] from avahi[3] instead of making
the user set an IP?
- Ryan
1. [link]
2. [link]

VT website Downloads

2 min 47 sec ago
Hello All
Steve and I have been doing some work on the Downloads tab file system to
try to find a way to accommodate the growing body of new firmware being
developed.
This is a work in progress and may well change.
In the 'firmware' top level folder is a ReadMe.txt document that contains a
tree diagram of the file system to assist with navigation.

Australia calling

2 min 47 sec ago
Hi all,
We've had an inquiry from a farmer with a property in central Victoria.
There is 3G coverage there but it only covers a small part of his farm. He
was wondering whether he could have a Village Telco to connect the
outbuildings on his farm and interconnect them with the mobile network. A
3G dongle connected to a WR703n in one of the areas with service would

Rwanda

2 min 47 sec ago
Hi guys,

After Terry's pic's of the floating village in north Vietnam i was
happy to find that they had implemented the OLPC (one laptop per
child) policy. In conversation over xmas i found out that this is
active in Rwanda ( Africa) as we speak. A friend of mine has fallen in
love with the VT concept and will be in Rwanda +/- 2 weeks and one off

dev.villagetelco.org Down

2 min 47 sec ago
Hi,
dev.villagetelco.org seems to be down?
Thanks,

opensips configuration

2 min 47 sec ago
hello everyone,
i have opensips installation without any packages or add-ons at the moment.
does anyone have a package/price to get to a minimum trial/demo state?
(copy & paste?)
thanks,
dave

TP-LINK delivery times (was: Re: [vt-dev] Happy 2012!)

2 min 47 sec ago
Hi Soumaila,
Where did you order them from? From here?
[link]
You may find they are stuck in customs and need to be cleared.
Whatever the case, you best bet is to follow up with the supplier

Twine

2 min 47 sec ago
Hi all,
This start-up is worth checking out. All kinds of possibilities.
[link]
Cheers... Steve

Happy 2012!

2 min 47 sec ago
A very Happy New Year to all you fine people in the Village Telco
Community! It's a pleasure and a privilege collaborating with you all on
this amazing project.
Cheers,
Keith

Buon Anno

Sat, 02/04/2012 - 07:45
PORTOGHESE Feliz Ano Novo RUSSO
С Новым Годом TEDESCO
Frohes Neues Jahr
FRANCESE Bonne Année GRECO Καλή
χρονιά FILIPPINO Manigong

hardware question

Tue, 01/31/2012 - 22:45
Hi Soumaila,
Did you get the potato-flash utility to work?
With regard to the one Mesh Potato that is not responding to ping:
What firmware is installed on it? Does it give you dialtone when it
is powered on and a phone is plugged into it? Does the WiFi light
blink after it has powered up?
Regards... Steve

Remote Challenges

Tue, 01/31/2012 - 16:45
Hello All
I thought it might be of interest to share a couple of images of a remote
location I visited earlier this week in northern Vietnam. It is a fishing
village where all the buildings are afloat and some distance from the
nearest shore. It is a complete community including a school which is
involved with the One Laptop Per Child project.

Serval BatPhone Developer Release 0.07

Mon, 01/30/2012 - 17:45
Hi all,
Just a heads up that the next developer release of the Serval BatPhone
software is out!
This version now uses the "Mesh" SSID that was chosen in agreement
with the VT community to foster interoperability, and is a significant
improvement on our previous release.
Head to the Software Page [link]

mesh potatoes at ITU Kaleidoscope

Tue, 01/24/2012 - 13:45
FYI - we have a mesh potato exhibit at ITU Kaleidoscope (http://
[link]) in our backyard in Cape
Town.
"we" are Hlabishi Kobo, Zukile Roro, Warren Nel and myself (all from
UWC Computer Science).
We are running a pretty recent version of SECN (help me here, Steve)
on three potatoes, and also have several SIP clients on both Android