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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).
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]
Review of WKMN Training Course: "A Newbie's Guide to Wireless" [NewbieGuideToWirelessReview]
[http://www.CityMesh.de A german language info-site about Metropolitan Area Networking]

Mapping and Discovery Tools

WiFi Mappers
- http://maps.personaltelco.net
- http://mapserver.zhrodague.net
Online mapping tools with street info
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

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- * 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/

 * Wireless Access Point Utilites for Unix

  *http://ap-utils.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 Documentation and Utilities ==



=== Documentation ===

 * 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

 * Setting up Wireless Cards on FreeBSD

  * http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/04/19/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

 * FreeBSD 4.6 Wireless AP (w/ Firewall & NAT using IPFW)

  * http://www.stevenfettig.com/article.php?sid=29

 * Configuring a FreeBSD Access Point for your Wireless Network

  * http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm



=== FreeBSD Utilities ===

 * bsd-airtools

  * http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/bsd-airtools.html

 * Wireless Access Point Utilites for Unix

  *http://ap-utils.polesye.net/



== 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 ==

 * iStumbler - Wireless Scanning Utility for Mac OS X

  * http://www.istumbler.net/

 * MacStumbler - a NetStumbler clone for Mac OS X

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

 * KisMAC - a wireless stumbler for Mac OS X

  * http://www.binaervarianz.de/projekte/programmieren/kismac/

 * ClassicStumbler - AirPort companion software scans for all Wi-Fi networks within range. For Mac OS.

  * http://homepage.mac.com/alk/classicstumbler/



== Vendor Equipment ==

 * Victoria Wireless - Wi-fi products and information.

  * http://www.vicwireless.com.au

 * Moonblink Wireless - Discount Wireless ISP equipment & More

  * http://www.moonblinkwifi.com

 * 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/



== 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

 * How-to Loop-Uda-Yagi

  * http://www.pucelawireless.net/traducciones/loop_uda_yagi/

 * MJason 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

 * Also a very nice page. David likes circular wave guides and has some interesting ideas.

  * http://www.nodomainname.co.uk/cantenna/cantenna.htm

 * Michael Erskine's Parabolic Template

  * http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/index.html

 * 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://kyleti.aswwc.net/index.php?page=projects

 * 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/

 * How far can you extend your power cable before going to POE?

  * http://osiris.urbanna.net/antenna_designs/projects/poe.html

 * 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/

 * French weblog on wireless

  * http://blog.netpartoo.com/

 * Mobile Mesh Networking

  * http://mcabiling.persozone.net/mobilemesh/

 * 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?]

 * 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

 * Wireless LAN Mailing List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/

Please see our MailingLists page.  It lists all mailng lists associated with WirelessCommunities that we are aware of.



== Wireless Specific Trading Boards ==

 * [http://wirelesstrader.net]

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