• WirelessLinks

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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]

• 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

  • 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