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Node images

All of our images are Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable based. There are currently three sets of images but only the first two are officially supported:

• baseline images - for experimentation purposes
• kernel development images - for development purposes
• user contributed images - user supplied images which others may make use of

Baseline images

This is a list of baseline images Orbit currently supports for use on the Orbit grid and sandboxes.

Image name	Image Size	Build date	Linux Kernel	Extras
baseline-1.0.9.ndz	357 MB	2006-07-12	2.6.12	madwifi-old, ipw-2.4
baseline-1.0.10.ndz	189 MB	2006-07-12	2.6.12	ipw2200-1.1.3, madwifi-old
baseline-1.0.11.ndz	170 MB	2006-07-12	2.6.12	ipw2200-1.1.3, madwifi-0.9.1
baseline-1.0.12.ndz	130 MB	2007-01-27	2.6.18-3-686	madwifi-old-r1417-20060128, ipw2200-1.2.1
baseline-2.0.ndz	159 MB	2007-01-27	2.6.18-3-686	madwifi-0.9.2.1, ipw2200-1.2.1
baseline-2.1.ndz	192 MB	2007-02-13	2.6.18-3-686	madwifi-0.9.2.1, ipw2200-1.2.1, gnuradio
baseline-dev.ndz	231 MB	2007-02-13	2.6.18-3-686	madwifi-0.9.2.1, ipw2200-1.2.1, gnuradio and gnuradio development
baseline-2.2.ndz	190 MB	2007-07-03	2.6.18-4-686	madwifi-0.9.3.1, nodeagent4
baseline-2.3.ndz	169 MB	2007-07-13	2.6.21-2-686	madwifi-0.9.3.1 patched, nodeagent4, ipw2200-1.2.2
baseline-2.4.ndz	177 MB	2007-09-18	2.6.21-2-686	ebtables, iptables, madwifi-0.9.3.3, ipw2200-1.2.2, aodv-uu-0.9.5 module
baseline-2007-11-13.ndz	187 MB	2007-11-13	2.6.21-2-686	ebtables, iptables, madwifi-0.9.3.3, ipw2200-1.2.2, aodv-uu-0.9.5 module, ​compat-wireless-2.6
baseline-8.2.ndz	280 MB	2008-02-22	2.6.22-3-686	ebtables, iptables, bridge-utils, madwifi-0.9.4, ipw2200-1.2.2, aodv-uu-0.9.5 module, ​compat-wireless-2.6
baseline-8.3.ndz	154 MB	2008-03-01	2.6.22-3-686	ebtables, iptables, bridge-utils, madwifi-3366+patches, ipw2200-1.2.2, aodv-uu-0.9.5 module, ​compat-wireless-2.6
baseline-8.3-dev.ndz	263 MB	2008-03-01	2.6.22-3-686	ebtables, iptables, bridge-utils, madwifi-3366+patches, ipw2200-1.2.2, aodv-uu-0.9.5 module, ​compat-wireless-2.6, kernel headers, gcc, development tools
baseline-8.9-dev.ndz	265 MB	2008-09-12	2.6.27-rc6	ebtables, iptables, bridge-utils, madwifi-hal-2008-08-15, ​compat-wireless-2.6, kernel headers, gcc, development tools

Specialized images

GNU Radio

Image name	Image Size	Linux Kernel	Extras
gnuradio-2006-02-21.ndz	547 MB	2.6.12	gnuradio 3.0.0
gnuradio-2006-10-10.ndz	609 MB	2.6.17	gnuradio 3.0.2
gnuradio-2006-11-22.ndz	615 MB	2.6.18	gnuradio 3.0.2
gnuradio-svn-2007-03-22.ndz	404 MB	2.6.18-3-686	baseline-2007-02-13 + gnuradio-svn
gnuradio-svn-2007-11-18.ndz	357 MB	2.6.21-2-686	baseline-2007-09-18 + gnuradio svn

gnuradio.ndz is pointing to the latest gnuradio release image (gnuradio-2006-11-22.ndz) while gnuradio-svn.ndz is currently pointing at gnuradio-svn-2007-11-18.ndz.

Routing Images

Image name	Image Size	Linux Kernel	Extras
routing-2007-11-20.ndz	190 MB	2.6.22-3-686	aodv-uu-0.9.5, olsr-0.5.3-3

routing.ndz is pointing to the latest routing image (routing-2007-11-20.ndz)

Tiny OS

Image name	Image Size	Linux Kernel	Extras
tinyos-2007-06-14.ndz	669 MB	2.6.18	TinyOS 2.0

tinyos.ndz at the moment points to tinyos-2007-06-14.ndz

Kernel Development Images

These images are for development, as such you are expected to patch the kernel yourself. Image updates are provided upon wireless stack updates from the linvile's wireless-dev git tree. In addition to having the latest and greatest these images also have enabled debugging options for kernel development.

Image name	Image Size	Build date	Linux Kernel	Extras
wireless-2.6.ndz	622 MB	2007-11-07	2.6.24-rc1	mac80211 and new mac80211 drivers

Suggested readings

• BuildingDrivers