What now?

[Patrick Garnett]

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Marshall <tommy at home.tig-grr.com>
To: <dev at seattlewireless.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: What now?
.> Basically all you need to do is set the SSID to "seattlewireless" and
turn
> off encryption.  If you have the older firmware (3.83 I think), you will
> need to upgrade (3.90 or above) to get a fully free-form SSID.  The older
> firmware insists on putting the low 5 or 6 hex digits of its MAC address
in
> the first portion of the SSID, so you end up with something similar to
this:
> "XXXXXXewireless".
>
> If you want to provide services on your node (web server, etc.) then you
> will probably want to hook the RG1000 up to a server.  I recommend
> connecting the RG1000 directly to an ethernet card on your server with a
> crossover cable.  This will make it easier to separate your wireless
traffic
> from your ethernet traffic (if you have a LAN .. if not, this will save
you
> the cost of a hub).
>
> Now, this isn't a very exciting setup, but it's a start.  The next thing
you
> need is a link with another seattlewireless node.  Then it starts to get
> really interesting.  :-)
>
.> >     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.
.> Unplug and get connected: http://www.seattlewireless.net/
>
I was wrong.  There was a section of linux driver sources on the orinoco cd.
All I have to do is recompile the PCMCIA support included in the
distribution the configure.  This could take longer than I thought.  Unless
it's actually in there already under some name or vendor's name.
           What about using the included SuSE firewall?  Of course a
standalone dedicated box would be optimal, but O'll settle for practical.
    pat