# Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network AREDN(tm) Firmware http://www.arednmesh.org ## Usage Information ### What to know about the images built with the instructions below This is the active 'develop' branch with latest AREDN code. At anytime a new change may be broken or break prior capabilities. The Amateur Radio community is encouraged to participate in loading the images produced from a "nightly build" and run the AREDN firmware in a variety of environments. Given new features may not yet be documented, participants should already have a basic knowledge of Linux and Networking to understand and provide useful feedback to the Developer submitting the code. The goal of participation is to obtain confidence that new features and the overall mesh node is stable. The more participation, the earlier an issue is found, the faster an enhancement will be turned into a release. Here is a summary of significant features added since 3.18.9.0 was releaed: * Locked to Openwrt 18.06.1 Please refer to https://gihub.com/aredn/aredn_ar71xx/issues for a list of outstanding defects. The following devices have a peculiar cat5 configuration due to a limitation in the Ethernet driver. The 'Main" port is used for LAN devices only. The "Secondary" port is WAN and DtDLink usage only. Depending on deployed usage, 2 cat5 cables may be needed. * Ubiquiti Nanostation M5 XW * Ubiquiti Nanostation M2 XW * TP-Link CPE210 v1.0 and v1.1 * TP-Link CPE510 v1.0 and v1.1 Latest Mikrotik installation options are found at: https://www.arednmesh.org/content/installation-instructions-mikrotik-devices ### Images built Device | Image to Use | RAM | Stability ------ | ------------ | --- | --------- AirGrid XM | bullet-m | 32Mb | stable AirGrid XW | loco-m-xw | 32Mb | stable AirRouter | airrouter | 32Mb | stable AirRouter HP | airrouter | 32Mb | stable Bullet M2/M2Ti/M5/M5Ti | bullet-m | 32Mb | stable Bullet Ti | bullet-m | 32Mb | stable NanoBeam-M2-13/16/19 | loco-m-xw | 32Mb | stable NanoBridge 2G18 | bullet-m | 32Mb | stable NanoBridge 5G22/25 | bullet-m | 32Mb | stable NanoBridge M9 | bullet-m | 32Mb | stable NanoStation Loco M2/M5/M9 XM | bullet-m | 32Mb | stable NanoStation Loco M2 XW | loco-m-xw | 64Mb | stable NanoStation Loco M5 XW with test date before ~Nov 2017| loco-m-xw | 64Mb | stable NanoStation Loco M5 XW with test date on or after ~Nov 2017 | rocket-m-xw | 64Mb | stable NanoStation M2/M3/M5 XM | nano-m | 32Mb | stable NanoStation M2/M5 XW | nano-m-xw | 64Mb | stable PicoStation M2 | bullet-m | 32Mb | stable PowerBeam-M2-400 | loco-m-xw | 64Mb | stable PowerBeam-M5-300 | loco-m-xw | 64Mb | stable PowerBeam-M5-400/400ISO/620 | rocket-m-xw | 64Mb | stable PowerBridge | nano-m | 64Mb | stable Rocket M9/M2/M3/M5/M5GPS XM | rocket-m | 64Mb | stable Rocket M2/M5 XW | rocket-m-xw | 64Mb | stable Rocket M2 TI | rocket-m-ti? | 64Mb | unknown Rocket M5 TI | rocket-m-ti | 64Mb | stable TPLink CPE210 v1.0/v1.1 | cpe210-220-v1 | 64Mb | stable TPLink CPE210 v2.0/v3.0 | cpe210-v2 | 64Mb | stable TPLink CPE510 v1.0/v1.1/v2.0 | cpe510-520-v1 | 64Mb | stable Mikrotik BaseBox 2/5 | mikrotik-nand-large | 64Mb | stable Mikrotik hAP lite 952Ui-5ac2nD | mikrotik-rb-nor-flash-16M-ac | 64Mb | stable ## Submitting Bug Reports Please submit all issues to http://github.com/aredn/aredn_ar71xx/issues ## Developer Only Information The AREDN firmware is based on OpenWrt with additional packages and patches. A Makefile automates the entire process to create firmware images. ### Building with Docker Installing the Docker environment on your windows/linux/mac machine is a pre-requisite. A docker 'container' has been pre-configured with an aredn linux build environment. Alternative instructions are below if you wish to setup your linux install with the compiler pre-requisites necessary to do the build. To build with docker: ``` docker pull arednmesh/builder docker run -it --name builder arednmesh/builder ``` To pull an image (or any other file) out of the docker container: ``` docker cp builder:/opt/aredn/aredn_ar71xx/firmware/targets/ar71xx/generic/.bin ``` ### Build Prerequisites Please take a look at the [OpenWrt documentation](https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/build-system/install-buildsystem) for a complete and up to date list of packages for your operating system. On Ubuntu/Debian: ``` apt-get install git subversion build-essential libncurses5-dev \ zlib1g-dev gawk unzip libxml-perl flex wget gettext quilt \ python libssl-dev shellcheck lua5.1 ``` On openSUSE: ``` zypper install --type pattern devel_basis zypper install git subversion ncurses-devel zlib-devel gawk unzip \ perl-libxml-perl flex wget gettext-runtime quilt python \ libopenssl-devel shellcheck lua51 ``` ### Building firmware images To obtain the source and build the firmware locally use: ```bash git clone https://github.com/aredn/aredn_ar71xx.git cd aredn_ar71xx git checkout 3.18.9.0 vi config.mk # enter your callsign, etc. # build default ubnt and tplink images make # build and add mikrotik images to firmware dir make SUBTARGET=mikrotik ``` Building the images may take minutes or hours depending on the machine. For more details see [build options](https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/build-system/use-buildsystem). Review the build options in config.mk: `-j `. `V=s` will give more verbose error messages. An internet connection is required during the build process. A good internet connection can improve the build time. You need approximately 10GB of space for the build. ### How to build prior builds of AREDN Prior AREDN images can be rebuilt. Replace one of the following after the "cd aredn_ar71xx" command above: AREDN release 3.18.9.0 ``` git checkout 3.18.9.0 ``` AREDN release 3.16.2.0 ``` git checkout 3.16.2.0 ``` AREDN release 3.16.1.1 ``` git checkout 3.16.1.1-make ``` AREDN build 176 ``` git checkout 91ee867 ``` Return to most current changes ``` git checkout develop ``` ### Directory Layout ``` Included in the git Repo: config.mk <- build settings openwrt.mk <- which openwrt repo and branch/tag/commit to use feeds.conf/ <- custom package feeds (edit to point to your clone of aredn_packages) files/ <- file system in AERDN created images, most customizations go here patches/ <- patches to openwrt go here scripts/ <- tests and other scripts called from the build configs/ <- definitions of features in the devices' kernel and what packages to include Makefile <- the build definition README.md <- this file Created by the build: openwrt/ <- cloned openwrt repository firmware/ <- the build will place the images here results/ <- code checks and other test results in jUnit xml format ``` ### Patches with quilt The patches directory contains quilt patches applied on top of the openwrt git repo defined in config.mk. If a patch is not yet included upstream, it can be placed in the `patches` directory with the `quilt` tool. Please configure `quilt` as described in [OpenWrt Quilt](https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/build-system/use-patches-with-buildsystem). #### Add, modify or delete a patch Switch to the openwrt directory: ```bash cd openwrt ``` Now you can use the `quilt` commands. ##### Example: add a patch ```bash quilt push -a # apply all patches quilt new 008-awesome.patch # tell quilt to create a new patch quilt edit somedir/somefile1 # edit files quilt edit somedir/somefile2 quilt refresh # creates/updates the patch file ``` ## Submitting new features and patches to AREDN The high level steps to submit to this repository https://github.com/aredn/aredn_ar71xx are: 1) create a github account and 'fork' this repo 2) git commit a change into your fork, e.g. http://github.com/ae6xe/aredn_ar71xx 3) create a pull request for http://github.com/aredn/aredn_ar71xx to consider your change