[PLUG] Linux Wifi Clinic?
Marv
lamsokvr at xprt.net
Fri Apr 23 17:48:02 UTC 2004
All
I don't have WiFi <yet>
but, I would love to buy gear and show up.
Can you post a list of recommended gear..
Card and WAP????
TIA
Marv
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 17:43, Dan Haskell wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
> > Them's beautiful words, Dan! Let's shoot for Saturday May 15, starting
> > as early as Riverdale will permit (Or 9am, let's keep this sane ...).
>
> We talked and agreed that 9AM was a little too early for a Saturday. It
> would also make for too long a day (9 hours!) Would 11 AM work? We could
> continue helping people with Wifi for the rest of the Clinic - that would
> give us a 6 hour session.
>
> > Does Riverdale already have wifi? We may need to temporarily turn it
> > off to test the association of other access points; maybe not, I will
> > defer to the able folk at Portland Personal Telco for their approach to
> > that. Something to find out about.
>
> Riverdale does not yet have wifi, but it sounds like Paul is working on
> it. We can always turn it off if the PersonalTelco people have a better
> solution.
>
> > I will come back from Linuxfest Sunday evening, brimming with ideas,
> > mostly about how we can make this manageable and on-task. Normally,
> > I would allow another month to prepare, but so many folks have stepped
> > up with offers of help that it looks like we can pull this thing off
> > in less than a month.
>
> I think May 15 is a reasonable target. The fact that it will coincide with
> our monthly session helps.
>
> > I think the first thing to think about is the range of wifi solutions
> > we want to try to support for that first saturday, or encourage people
> > to explore. B only? or G too? Just laptops and WAPs, or PCI card
> > solutions, too? Antenna fiddles, setting up gaming networks, and
> > setting up full Personaltelco sites, may be too ambitious for the
> > first Linux Wifi Clinic. So is setting up Windoze servers (though
> > Windoze clients might be OK).
>
> Well, what we generally do is work with the equipment people have (no
> promises if it's cheapo or unsupported stuff). If we are keeping to that
> model, then participants will need to bring their computer, wifi card, and
> WAP. We will probably need to do some coordination regarding frequencies,
> so we can verify that everything works.
>
> My personal feeling is that it would be best to focus on getting people
> started. You're probably right that the other issues are a little too
> much.
>
> I have snipped out the rest of the message - all of which was good, but
> not anything I need to comment on.
>
> Do you want to put up a web page about this on personaltelco.net? Google
> seems to love your wikki! Let me know if you can't and we will put one
> together.
>
> It seems like we should have information up on personaltelco, pdxlinux,
> and mwvlug (the Salem Linux group). Can anyone think of other places? It
> would be nice if we had a flyer to post in cafes that have hot spots. Any
> volunteers to make one up?
>
> Dan
>
>
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