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Location: House of TomHigginsBR
2924 SE Alder St Portland ORBR
Date: 02/23/03 BR Planned Start Time: 12 Noon BR Actual Start Time: 12 Noon BR Wrap Up Time: 6:00 pmBR Role call:TomHiggins Alex Trent SamChurchill Ray Bret memorylapse
Agenda: BR
Meet and Greet / Setup BR
Demos and Projects BR
- DWL-800ap+
- Netstumbler
- Fun With XP
Questions and Answers BR
- We started off mucking with Windows XP. Note Bene, if xp tries to turn on bridging between your network interfaces, slap it down. Head over to your network setup and delete the Network Bridge item. This will free up your NICs, the wirelss one should be set to grab a dhcp.
Cards dealt with Orinocos, Linksys, Siemens SpeedStreams,
- Lots of questions about where things stand with PTPs aims. Talk of MANs really got folks talking. Phase one, set up hotspots, phase two, tie em together. Lots of talk about schools and community centers. Given the state of the state getting some sort of value added boxes with wifi into these places seems a great way to get good pr and more nodes.
- Some good use of netstumbler. Used it to see how each others cards were behaving as well as to test out Berts cool Dlink Repeater/AP
- Freegeek came up as a unisys " clonearmy " box was show off. It is cheaper than many solutions, but the moving parts will make it a no sell to the solid staters. Still its a good cheap alternative.
Next meeting:March 2003 (tdb) NewbieWorkshop03 BR Topic: BR BR BR
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