[TheFox2996]

We are having major difficulties in configuring the new OpenMesh radios for use on our field for a pre-ship scrimmage this Saturday. In previous years, we were able to have teams configure DLINK, cRio/RoboRio, and any other networked robot cameras using static IPs (using the conventional 10.TE.AM.X subnet). We would configure the DLINK to disable DHCP and switch it to bridge mode using the switch on the back, and configure the radio to talk to our field access point (i.e., coniguring the SSID, the security settings, etc.). We use a simple, older version of FMS-Lite on a field laptop to run the field with good success.

The new OpenMesh / OpenWRT radio configuration through the FRC Radio Configuration utility does not appear to work for FMS-Lite field configuration directly (there is an option under "Tools" for FMS-Lite configuration). The utility appears to run correctly in that it prompts for a field SSID and WPA key. However, after configuration, there seems to be some bug which causes the radio to get into a mode where either it is unresponsive when the Web interface is invoked from a PC on the same subnet, or the web interface comes up, but gives an "incorrect password" error when "root" is entered for the password (which otherwise works fine). The only recovery from this is to reflash the radio, and reconfigure in either AP or bridge mode and not FMS-Lite mode.

Attempts to start with the bridge (competition) mode configuration using the FRC Radio config utility followed by manual tweeking through the web interface looked promising (although daunting) at first, but after attempting several variations we cannot get a configuration that works. We frequently got the bridge stuck in a state that required a firmware reflash to recover.

We have a relatively simple field AP (Netgear WNDAP360) which can do simple static VLANs and separate SSIDs. We can get bridges to associate on individual SSIDS, but we also could not get that to route (cannot ping the AP).

This shouldn't be as hard as it is. Does anyone have a simple configuration that works? Any secret sauce for making the new radios work with FMS-Lite? What are you doing for pre-ship scrimmage FMS?