Monthly Archives: April 2006

Madwifi-NG, finally

By Ken | Published: April 5, 2006
Finally have gotten around to playing with the new codebase for the MadWifi driver, MadWifi-NG. Among the new stuff is the ability to have multiple virtual Access Points on a single card, and also have virtual clients and virtual access points on the same card. I have not gotten the later working but I have [...]
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HackNight Summary; WifiDog and Ruby packages for Pyramid

By Ken | Published: April 5, 2006
If you haven’t been keeping up with Matt and Rob, they (Metrix) have released a new linux distro called pyramid linux. Pyramid should pick up where pebble linux left off, meaning that it should be easier to maintain and update with new packages and wireless drivers. It is based on Ubuntu, and you can use the [...]
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More on the twister

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
So it looks like the storm we experienced left some serious devastation in its wake.
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Community Wireless Summit Decompression

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
So here we are sitting at the Sheraton in St. Charles, MO. It may sound like the beginning to a bad joke: “I am sitting in a bar with an Anthropologist and Physcologist from Intel, people from the and Ghanna Community Wireless Network, Eastern India Community Wireless and of course Matt.” Bogdan of Belgrade Wireless just [...]
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Beware the green clouds

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
So a few moments ago the Community Wireless Summit was wrapping up and a bunch of us were hanging out saying our goodbyes. In the course of 5 minutes a beatiful sunny day with people going shirtless turned into a complete grey sky with large green clouds rolling through fast enough to make everyone turn around and [...]
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Nocat Auth is dead, long live WifiDog

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
Nocat Auth was the first and for a while the only open source captive portal, written specifically to address needs in community wireless networks. WifiDog is a open source captive portal project written by some folks from the Ile Sans Fil community wireless networking project. WifiDog really shines in aggreating content and making it available in splash [...]
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Network Neutraility

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
Network Neutrality I have been long wanting to get more involved with Network Neutraility discussion, so this weekend at the Community Wireless Summit I went to a great panel discussion with: Ben Scott Victor Pickard Harold Feld Mark Cooper In short network nuetraility basically entails keeping packets under common carriage. Network providers should not be able to manipulate 1s and 0s [...]
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Community Wireless Summit 2006 – Soundbites

By Ken | Published: April 1, 2006
So I have heard some funny and interesting sound bites in various prensentations and Q and A, I will try and keep updating this over the weekend. “Infinite Scalability, Totally Secure” - Jeffery King, Northrup Grumman IT, in reference to the Tropos based municipal wireless network being built out in Corpus Christi “Infinite Scalability, Total Bullshit” -Kyle, [...]
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