Category Archives: pyramid

Updated Pyramid LiveCD Installer

By Ken | Published: August 1, 2007
I mentioned in this email a little while back that I released a new Pyramid LiveCD Installer with the 1.0b5 version of Pyarmid. This CD provides a simple method for boot strapping a Soekris net45XX/net48XX single board computer. Some models accept normal compact flash cards for the operating system media in which case you could easily [...]
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New Digs

By Ken | Published: July 31, 2007
Alot of things have happened in 2007 with my company. We completely revamped our online store to start of the year, we have added a ton of new products and we moved in to a new address located on pine in Capitol Hill. June 16th marked an entire year since I left my full time [...]
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Novatel Merlin u730 HSPDA Card in Linux

By Ken | Published: January 21, 2007
Decided to try and get a friend’s u730 cellular data card working in Pyramid Linux last night. I thought it would pretty trivial since the card appears to use the same chipset as other EVDO/HSPDA cards already supported in the airprime module. But it turns out the device/vendor id combo is not in airprime. This [...]
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Soekris PXE installs via LiveCD and Pyramid 1.0b4

By Ken | Published: December 20, 2006
Just sent this email to the Pyramid Linux mailing list. Make a long story short there is a new image of Pyramid available. As well as a live CD that can PXE bootstrap and install the following Operating Systems on Soekris (and potentially other) hardware: Pyramid Linux M0n0Wall PfSense CuWin AstLinux
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SeattleWireless Field Day

By Ken | Published: November 3, 2006
So I am probably the last person to post something about Field Day 2006 but eh, better late then never. The main idea behind field day is to rapidly deploy a wireless network at various points in the city and do so without relying the grid for communication or power. We do it mostly for [...]
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Toorcon Workshop

By Ken | Published: September 14, 2006
Myself and Matt will be doing a workshop at Toorcon 8. It will be a one day workshop covering the basics of boot strapping an embedded wireless device ( Soekris based ) and setting up a wireless mesh using OLSR. Participants in the class get an embedded wireless device from my company Metrix that they [...]
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MadwifiNG at Hacknight

By Ken | Published: August 23, 2006
So tonight at hacknight we are sitting at Cal Anderson park, I was able to fire up a Metrix box running Pyramid Linux with a lithium ion laptop battery to act as a repeater from the local cafe. The cool part is that we are using a single radio which is simultaneously a STA (client) [...]
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NoCatSplash binaries for Pyramid Linux

By Ken | Published: June 19, 2006
Nocat Splash binaries for pyramid linux. Tested and seem to work ok.
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gpsd for pyramid linux

By Ken | Published: April 28, 2006
At the request of Darrin, I just built gpsd for Pyramid Linux. I don’t have all the gps gear to test it fully but I loaded it up on a soekris board at home and it starts up with no problems. I stuck here for now: http://ken.ipl31.net/pyramid/   I stripped out all the man pages per usual, [...]
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