Category Archives: /seattlewireless

MadwifiNG at Hacknight

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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Freenetworks.org move

The server hosting freenetworks.org moved last week. Those of you on the unwired and nycwireless mailing lists may have noticed some glitches, however they should all be resolved. My ex-employer who graciously hosted the box for over six years has dismantled their rack at Internap. Luckily I was able to move into the Seattle Community [...]
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NoCatSplash binaries for Pyramid Linux

Nocat Splash binaries for pyramid linux. Tested and seem to work ok.
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LayerOne Pics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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