[olug] what I do for wireless

[Jeff Hinrichs]

I use the soekris net4801 and m0n0wall.  While I haven't set it up for
wireless, it is easily done and well documented.  In fact, I saw spot a
while ago about a University that was using the 4801+m0n0wall for their
wireless security course.  Students were writing/implementing different
security strategies. 

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Neal Rauhauser
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 3:27 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: [olug] what I do for wireless



  This isn't under the $100 mark, but they pretty much kick butt:

  I start with a Soekris 486/100 single board computer ...

http://soekris.com/net4511.htm

  And I add a +21 - +23dBm wireless card from Netgate - it says 200mw, 
but radios are never that precise in terms of output - you can expect 
somewhere between 125mw and 200mw.

http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?products_id=43&osCsid=39f36602a8
39d61694686f50ebb117ee

  There are several operating system installation procedures documented,

but I found the OpenSoekris script to be the best for my needs. I 
started working with it using OpenBSD 3.4 and I found some issues with 
OpenBSD 3.6 that have kept me using the older version. They weren't 
insurmountable issues, but I didn't want to fiddle with kernel configs 
and such each time I built a new image.

 http://opensoekris.sourceforge.net/

  I've had two locations that each had a pair of these things for doing 
a parking lot crossing job and I recently installed a four node cell of 
them. The center to the cell was a Soekris machine, but it recently got 
upgraded to a Cisco 1231 AP  - OpenBSD does not support WPA and we want 
to use this because the cell will expand to handle iPaqs running Windows

Mobile(choke! puke!).

 I've recently started trying to get FreeBSD 5.4 running on the system 
but the netboot procedure detailed on that link from the Soekris site 
has me totally confused. We'll see how far I get, since Cisco has turned

up the heat on featues in the 12xx series and they've fixed the 
reliability problems that plagued the 350 series.










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