Category Archives: /seattlewireless

CUWiN Homer Mesh Project

By Ken | Published: December 13, 2007
The CUWiN folks spent some time recently adding new equipment to the Homer mesh network. My company Metrix has provided them with all the gear for this project to provide the Village of Homer with a low cost tubes.
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EaKiu: Eye Candy for the Wi-Spy

By Ken | Published: August 7, 2007
While at WWDC John and Daniel turned me on to EaKiu. Its a cool piece of software for the Wi-Spy 2.4Ghz USB Spectrum Analyzer. It touts some pretty cool 3D graphs. Unfortunately its OS X only. For Windows you can use manufacturer provided software, and for Linux you can use Dragorn’s software. Which both sport [...]
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Wifi in the wall: Karo WEJ-11G

By Ken | Published: August 3, 2007
At work we just carrying this cool new device, an access point that fits in a wall box. Looks like it would be great for outfitting apartment buildings and/or condos with wifi coverage. It supports all the usual AP/Bridging/WDS, POE, SSL web management etc… Even supports remote syslog and SNMP.
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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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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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Google and open source mesh…please?

By Ken | Published: November 18, 2006
There are some questions being asked about the Google wifi project in Mountain View, CA. It appears that the real world performance is not acceptable from some user complaints and the network appears to buckle under pressure! Imagine that, a wireless network buckling under pressure! The wireless portion of the network is powered by Tropos, a [...]
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DOD Access Points?

By Ken | Published: November 15, 2006
So we are at hacknight messing with some old Arlan 630 900mhz wireless access points we got off ebay. Our goal is to upgrade them to the “bridging” firmware so the devices can talk to each other and not just client cards. On a side note the boxes were bought off ebay. The access points came [...]
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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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