Category Archives: /freenetworks

LayerOne Pics

By Ken | Published: April 18, 2006
Well the pictures from LayerOne are starting to hit flickr. I only took a couple but a bunch of people were running around with cameras, so I expect there to be quite a few.
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LayerOne Talk Wrap Up

By Ken | Published: April 15, 2006
So I just wrapped up my presentation for LayerOne. I think it went really well and people had some great questions. As promised to the audience here are a bunch of links for further reading on the subjects we discussed: Community Wireless: Seattlewireless.net Freenetworks.org Mesh Routing: OLSR: Optimized Link State Routing Protocol Hazy Sighted Link [...]
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Hack Night Summary – April 12

By Ken | Published: April 12, 2006
Getting ready to head out from hack night but things still appear to be going strong. So far this evening: -Some update on the status of the Node at the Ambassador building. -Eric Butler’s friend whose name I can’t remember was dissecting an Iriver h320 and replacing the battery with a higher capacity third party Ipod gen 2 [...]
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LayerOne this weekend

By Ken | Published: April 11, 2006
Myself and bunch of people from DC206 are flying down to LA on Friday for LayerOne. LayerOne is whats generally referred to as a Hacker Con, with topics including things like lock picking, hardware hacking, and information security. I will be leading off the festivities on Saturday morning with a talk about Seattlewireless and Freenetworks in general. Community [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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