I have several Raspberry Pi units that I want to use for HAMNET.  The problem is there appears to be at least two versions of software in circulation.  I would like to be able to communicate with all of the different versions and hardware/software flavors in common use.   What software should I be using for maximum flexibility.. and PLEASE give a site where I can acquire the software least I pull out what little hair I have left.

Any other suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated

Jim

We do not currently produce a firmware for Raspberry Pi's.

Any firmware that does exist for a Pi isn't maintained by the BBHN group.

If any version does exist it would really be up to that group to keep in sync with the protocols and hopefully they have adopted setup instructions to be sure you stay in sync with the current protocol version which is V3 which is the current version recommended by us, however your local mesh network may choose to use a different protocol version.

thanks  now all I have to do is find BBHN

J

So where can I find this BBHN group.. a google search of the term brought me right back to Broadband Hamnet site that I am on

That is correct, this is the BBHN group (BroadBand-HamNet).

This is the group that started as HSSM with Linksys WRT54's and renamed to BBHN later and added Ubiquiti AirMax devices and as noted at this time we do NOT make a build for the Pi though other groups may.

If you are talking about using a Raspberry Pi micro computer with a USB wifi adapter and making it work with the various Broad Band Hamnet (BBHN) networks may I suggest:

https://github.com/urlgrey/hsmm-pi

As Conrad said, what the developers support on this site is mainly Linksys and Ubiquiti gear.