Welcome to my Home page on Personal Telco.

http://www.personaltelco.net

My local wireless group is in Boston Massachusetts

http://www.bawia.net

There are currently four registered nodes, in our immediate area, the towns of Acton and Westford, with several more closer in to Boston.

http://maps.personaltelco.net/node_map_choose?protocol=&status=&scale=0.0104&lat=42.5&lon=-71.4

I'm personally running with a Cisco 350 card, A Hewlett Packard Omnibook Computer running Linux (Red Hat 7.2 at the moment). No AP yet but that's coming soon.

Here's some of the issues I'm working on with other members of bawia:

= Where the configuration data is

How and where every bit of configuration information for the aironet card is stored or should be stored, how and when the information is used.

For example:

== when you set modes in /proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config, does that store information on the card itself or just store things in the kernel? == Does any configuration data get stored in the card? If it does is it volatile or does it remain if you shut the card off and turn it back on again. == The interface for configuration information is /proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config. What's the mechanism for getting information back and forth between the card and /proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config. Is that the work of the driver?

II. What are all the modes you can set in /proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config?

III. How do you reset the Aironet 350 card to "factory settings"

IV. We did the configuration on the laptop manually by entering the ifconfig, route and iwconfig commands in a term window. How do you set things up so this happens automatically at boot time or at the time you insert the Aironet card.

V. How do you get two aironet cards to talk to each other without an Access Point? I may have misunderstood but I think someone said you can't do that with Aironet cards - I don't believe it.

VI. When an AP and a card won't communicate, what's the order of things to check?

VII. Some cards are known to have interoperability problems. Where do we find solutions? How are solutions found? What's really impossible? What's merely troublesome because you haven't found the right information?

VIII. What open source tools for network detection and monitoring are there and what are the pre-requisite packages and versions for getting them built and running. I've built and installed etherreal but we couldn't get it working on the wireless interface, maybe because we had some configuration work still to do. There may be something to do to etherreal's build to get it to work with wireless, and I need to learn how etherreal works at the tcp/ip level at the level of the interface, and at the mac level.

Some of these questions will be covered by Howtos and FAQ's I haven't read yet.

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