Booting Linux on the Mesh Potato

The good news is we have Linux booting on the Mesh Potato:

+Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:22:b0:42:03:e4
IP: 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 192.168.1.22
Default server: 192.168.1.2

RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROMRAM]
Non-certified release, version v1.3.0 – built 16:59:11, Jun 8 2009

Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Red Hat, Inc.

Board: ap61
RAM: 0×80000000-0×81000000, [0x8003dd50-0x80fe1000] available
FLASH: 0xa8000000 – 0xa87e0000, 128 blocks of [...]

Breathing Life into the Mesh Potato – Day 1

The first Mesh Potato

Yesterday (Monday June 1) the courier arrived with the very first Mesh Potato (MP) prototype, which had been hand assembled by the good people at Atcom. This is always an exciting and risky time in the life of any hardware project, as you don’t really know if it’s going to [...]

Village Telco Profiled in ICTUpdate

The Village Telco and the Mesh Potato are profiled in the latest edition of ICTUpdate, a bimonthly printed bulletin, a web magazine, and an accompanying email newsletter published by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) ACP–EU. I’d love to say those were my own words, as the article does such a [...]