i worked on the MeshCube from 2003 until 2005. it's a cute small wireless mesh router platform, but unfortunately it is no longer produced. some thousand pieces of the hardware have been sold however and there is still a small group of people dedicated to it. now that 4g systems is dead and meshcube.org is down i'll try to keep some information about the cube and some pieces of the MeshCube wiki here.

The hardware platform is dedicated to WirelessLan MeshRouting, and was developed by 4G Systems, Hamburg, Germany. With a 400MHz MIPS processor, 64MB RAM, 32MB flash and up to 8 MiniPCI cards, it is powerful enough to provide security and encryption, and flexible enough for custom applications and modifications. See section /HardwareSpecs for more details about the hardware.

The software on the MeshCube is nylon, a specialized Linux distribution for WirelessLan and MeshRouting. Its main features are networking in general, WirelessLan, routing, MeshRouting, autoconfiguration, an emphasis on security and a compact design to fit on the 32MB flash. It is completely licensed under an OpenSource licence and is based on openembedded.

• NyLon - the "nylon" mesh distribution

• NylonBuild - how to build nylon from source

• OlsrTopologyVisualization

• /IntroDuction

• /FrequentlyAskedQuestions

• /SerialPort

• /ConfigFiles

• /MiniPciAdapter

• /HardwareSpecs

• /AccessTheCube

• /InstallFilesystemImages

• /InstallPackages

• /LoadKernel

• /UdatePrism2Domain

• /OpenWrt

me and other people have set up a mirror of the package feed and build system:

• http://br1.einfach.org/nylon/ - my mirror

• http://imara-serv.inria.fr/pub/nylon-meshcubes/ - at INRIA

• http://download.berlin.freifunk.net/meshcube.org/