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Technical Groups and Papers

• The 802.11 specification

  • http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/

• Bluetooth

  • http://www.bluetooth.com/

• Wireless Ethernet

  • http://www.wirelessethernet.com/

• IEEE Working Groups

  • http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/dots.html

• IEEE 802.11b Specification

  • http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/index.html

• IEEE 802.1x (Radius Authentication)

  • http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1x.html

  • http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-congdon-radius-8021x-10.txt

• IEEE 802.15 (Personal Area Networks)

  • http://ieee802.org/15

• I EEE 802.16 (Wireless MANs)

  • http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/16/index.html

• IEEE 802.11e (QOS Extensions)

  • http://www.sharewave.com/Products/WhiteCap/whitecap.html

• UCB finds Security weaknesses in WEP (initial anouncements, followups and rebutals).

  • http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html

  • http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/wireless/2001-February/002041.html

  • http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/15/1745204.shtml

• FCC Rules and Regulations for 802.11 in the 2.4ghz Band

  • http://www.lns.com/papers/part15/#

General Wireless Information

• What you should know when starting a wireless project.

  • http://www.dcbnet.com/notes/9805wire.html

• [http://ordlink.com/cgi-bin/hilite.pl/codes/portland/_DATA/TITLE33/CHAPTER_33_274_RADIO_Frequency_Tra/33_274_030__Facilities_Exempt_.html Multnomah County Antenna Laws]

• Low Cost Wireless Network

  • http://www.gbonline.com/~multiplx/wireless/index.html

• Tutorials and general information on wireless LANS.

  • http://sss-mag.com/wlan.html

• General Information on dB, antenna gain, Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP), and lots more.

  • http://www.tifb.state.tx.us/Handbooks/mintech.htm

• Linux wireless LAN FAQ - mostly linux specific but good general info on how 802.11 works as well.

  • http://linux.grmbl.be/wlan/

• Linux wireless [http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ howto]

• weca - wireless ethernet [http://www.wirelessethernet.org/ association]

• Authenticated mobile IP on wireless [http://dopey.rediris.es/ftp/software/security/net-crypt/mobile-ip.FreeBSD/mip-July97.README networks under freebsd]

• Network computing reviews various [http://www.networkcomputing.com/1113/1113f2full.html 802.11b solutions]

  • This is a really good discussion about various 802.11b solutions. lots and lots of info.

• Interoperability between linux frees/wan and other [http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.8/doc/interop.html clients]

  • windows, mac and *bsd

• Wireless-nets: magazine, news letter etc [http://www.wireless-nets.com/ by jim geier]

• FCC Rules and Regulations for [http://www.lns.com/papers/part15/ 802.11 in the 2.4ghz band]

• [http://www.oreillynet.com/wireless/ O'Reilly Wireless web site]

• WirelessHealth page

• [http://www.networkcomputing.com/1115/1115ws22.html Anatomy of IEEE 802.11b Wireless]

• Wireless News and Information

• [http://wireless.pasadena.net]

Mapping and Discovery Tools

• WiFi Mappers

  • http://maps.personaltelco.net

  • http://mapserver.zhrodague.net

• Online mapping tools with street info

  • http://www.mapblast.com/

  • http://www.mapquest.com/

  • http://tiger.census.gov/

• Topozone, high quality topographical maps of the USA.

  • http://www.topozone.com/

• Distance and bearing calculator from lat/long

  • http://www.gbonline.com/~multiplx/wireless/distance.main.cgi

• MapIt! Unix mapping CGI to provide web based maps

  • http://www.mapit.de/

• Map Server, Unix CGI to provide web based GIS data

  • http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/

• Digital Raster Maps for Portland Oregon

  • http://www.fs.fed.us/database/gps/USGSQuadMaps.htm

• Radio Mobile, map radio networks (windows software)

  • http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html

• Calculate the loss of signal over various types and distances of cable.

  • http://www.timesmicrowave.com/cgi-bin/calculate

• The Tiger 2000 map data gathered by the US Census Bureau

  • ftp://ftp.census.gov/pub/geo/www/tiger/tiger2k/

• WiGLE.net wireless network database, map generation and network plotting.

  • http://wigle.net/

Linux Drivers, Software and Documentation

Hacks

• Linux on the Apple Airport

  • http://www-hft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~strauman/airport/airport.html

Drivers

• See LinuxDrivers

Software

• See LinuxClientSoftware

• Linux router projects

  • FreeSCO - http://www.freesco.org/

  • LRP - http://www.linuxrouter.org/ and http://lrp.c0wz.com/

  • WRP - http://www.nocat.net/

  • Smooth Wall - http://www.smoothwall.org

  • Seattle Firewall (Seawall) - http://seawall.sourceforge.net/

  • http://leaf.sourceforge.net/

• Perl command line interface to the Airport

  • http://www.aciri.org/fenner/airport/airport.html

• A Java interface to the Airport (also a utility that measures signal strength and noise)

  • http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/

• Dynamics: Mobile IP software from Helsinki U. Tech.

  • http://www.cs.hut.fi/Research/Dynamics/

• Set of utils to config and monitor Atmel based Wireless Access Points under Linux.

  • http://roma.polesye.net/

Documentation

• Absolute value systems - they wrote the wlan faq and also appear to have an sdk for wireless development under linux.

  • http://www.linux-wlan.com/

• How to build linux for a disk on chip system

  • http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8844506693.html

• How to use a *nix computer as an access point

  • http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html

• Dynamics: Mobile IP software from Helsinki U. Tech.

  • http://www.cs.hut.fi/Research/Dynamics/

FreeBSD Software

• How to get FreeBSD to do a wireless install

  • http://www.freebsddiary.org/wireless-install.php

  • http://lists.bawug.org/pipermail/bsd-wireless/2001-February/000043.html

Windows Software

• WindowsSoftware

• The Karl Net Configurator for the Airport and RG-1000.

  • http://www.karlnet.com/download/index.html

• Freebase - Configure a Macintosh Airport (note: should works with the RG-1000 as well)

  • http://freebase.sourceforge.net/

• PGP Net - a windows ipsec compliant vpn client.

  • http://www.nai.com/international/caribbean/asp_set/products/tns/pgpvpnclient_intro.asp (dead link June 17 2002)

  • http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html (second download site)

• Cross platform Airport wireless networks

  • http://www.macwindows.com/airportpc.html

Macintosh Software

• Type XI's AP Scanner - detects and lists info on all reachable access points.

  • http://homepage.mac.com/typexi/Personal1.html

• MacStumbler - a NetStumbler clone of Mac OSX

  • http://homepage.mac.com/macstumbler/

Vendor Equipment

• Nova Port Wireless Solutions - A local wireless LAN solution provider

  • http://www.novaport.com/

• Invictus Networks - The largest wireless reseller in the North West

  • http://www.invictusnetworks.com/

• Super Pass (Canadian Antenna Company)

  • http://www.superpass.com/

• Hyperlink Technologies

  • http://www.hyperlinktech.com/

• Amplifiers from Raylink

  • http://www.raylink.com/amplifier.htm

• Netnimble, Antennas and more ...

  • http://www.netnimble.com/

• Pasadena Networks, Mag Mount and fixed point antennas, pigtails, cables..

  • http://www.pasadena.net/store/

Building Your Own Equipment

• The Home brew antenna shootout

  • http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html

• Slashdot commentary on above link

  • http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/17/026208

• More antenna info

  • http://www.qsl.net/n1bwt/

Directional Antennas

• Trevor Marshall's Biquad Feed for Primestar Dish

  • http://www.trevormarshall.com/biquad.htm

• Seattle Wireless is doing great work on making antenna's from very cheap consumer grade bits and pieces.

  • http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/AntennaHowTo

• Jason Hecker has an excellent document on his helical antenna design

  • http://users.bigpond.net.au/jhecker/

• Guerrilla.net's directional antenna howto

  • http://www.guerrilla.net/reference/antennas/2ghz_helical/

• Andrew Clap's Directional Antenna (should be very cheap to build)

  • http://www.netscum.com/~clapp/wireless.html

• Rob Flickenger's rework of Andrew Clap's Antenna

  • http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

• More refinements of the Pringles can antenna:

  • http://radio-active.net.au/web/80211/pringles.html

• Wlan 2.4 GHz antenna do-it-yourself projects

  • http://www.saunalahti.fi/elepal/antennit.html

• Martti Palomaki's Cake Can Panel Antenna

  • http://www.saunalahti.fi/~elepal/antenna1.html

• Wave Guide Antennas

  • http://www.saunalahti.fi/~elepal/antenna2.html

• Rob Flickenger's Cantenna

  • http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1124

• More CANtennas

  • http://www.qsl.net/wk8l/

  • http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

Omni-Directional Antennas

• Tony Langdon has design details for a high gain 2.4 GHz omnidirectional antenna (look for links mentioning 2.4Ghz near the bottom of the page).

  • http://www.qsl.net/vk3jed/

• Guerrilla.net's omni-directional antenna howto

  • http://www.guerrilla.net/reference/antennas/2ghz_collinear_omni/

• A cheap and small omni-directional antenna

  • http://homepages.wwc.edu/student/kyleti/discone.html

• Another cheap and small omni. Appears to be gone.

  • http://members.nbci.com/calebthegreat/caleb/pandrproj.html

• The slim-jim omni

  • http://www.irational.org/sic/radio/omni-aerial.html

Dish Antennas

• Use a Surplus Primestar Dish as an IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking Antenna

  • http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html

• More on the same line, (~1000ft range!)

  • http://www5.cs.cornell.edu/~eckstrom/802.11a/primestar/

Other

• How to run Power over Ethernet

  • http://www.nycwireless.net/poe/

• Adding an external antenna to a Dlink PCMCIA card (DWL-650)

  • http://kevlar.burdell.org/~will/antenna/

• Pictures of a dissected a 4dB Maxrad Omni-directional antenna

  • http://www.nycwireless.net/Images/maxrad/

• Homebrew Embedded Linux Wireless Router

  • http://peeweelinux.org/stories/wirelessrouter/

Online Discussions

• Free Networks Weblog

  • http://www.freenetworks.org/

• Weblog on 802.11b

  • http://80211b.weblogger.com/

• Slashdot articles of interest

  • [http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/02/1323221.shtml Comments on an O'Reilly]

  • [http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/03/160236.shtml More 802.11b scaremongering]

  • [http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/29/148206.shtml The announcement of GAWD] and PersonalTelco's first /.'ing.

  • [http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/04/2242231.shtml Apple's Airport updated for 128 bit encryption]

  • [http://slashdot.org/articles/00/12/04/1950212.shtml Talking about SeattleWireless and other burgeoning wireless communities]

  • [http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/09/18/2345218.shtml An Ask Slashdot comparison of the Airport and the RG-1000]

  • [http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/06/1235248.shtml People hacking the Airports with custom antennas]

  • [http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/01/23/200254.shtml Home repair of the Airports]

  • [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/06/1248209&mode=thread War Driving with the kids]

• SecurityGeeks, articles of interest

  • [http://securitygeeks.shmoo.com/article.php?story=20010416165627989 A bit about 802.1x]

  • [http://securitygeeks.shmoo.com/article.php?story=2000121306222979 Insecurities in WEP]

  • [http://securitygeeks.shmoo.com/article.php?story=20010403153620361 More WEP problems, this time with the RG-1000]

• O'Reilly.net technical articles

  • [http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/197 Calculating the horizon and fresnel zones]

  • [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/05/03/longshot.html How far can 802.11 go?]

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• Kuro5hin article about why community networks are important by one of the consume.net gentlemen

  • http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2000/12/19/124636/45

• CNN article on wireless (in)security

  • http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/04/13/wireless.security.idg/index.html

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