What now?

[Patrick Garnett]

If the political discussion is over, can we do some development?

So now I am the proud owner of an Orinoko Residential Gateway,
  (RG-1000).  What else do I need, software and hardware to make it a
D node?
    The included software and instructions are oriented entirely towards
using it as a connection to the internet for the home, i.e, a substitute for
the wire to my phone jack.  Rather than provide the immediate neighborhood
with a free internet connection when I already have a functioning wire, I
would rather start by connecting it to my computer, via the ethernet
connection, I suppose and test it as a node. Then I'll need to correctly
configure a practical firewall.
    At this point I have dual-boot Suse 7.3 pro and a mini-Win 98 I use for
installing drivers when I can't do it with linux.  The gateway seems to have
had no linux drivers when I last checked.  Can I use an emulator or are
linux drivers in existence? Has anybody got a recipe for a node? I don't
want to be trying unsucessfully to reinvent the wheel.

I have looked at no-cat-auth, but that's for public internet conections.
The HOW-TOs I've seen were also not apropos of the seattle-wireless
alternative network idea.


    pat