[PLUG] Linux Wifi Clinic?

[Mike Layne]

I can attend and maybe provide hardware.  My knowledge is slight.

I have a linksys WAP11 802.11b that I could bring along for the good of 
the order.

I was looking forward to working on getting my IBM T21 with Linksys 
WPC11 ver.3 up and going but it started up without a hitch and found the 
WAP at my son's house just fine.

I'm going to have a couple of other stupid questions to work on however.

Let me know if this will help.

Mike Layne
Portland, Oregon
503-246-1441

Marv wrote:

>All
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>I don't have WiFi <yet>
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>but, I would love to buy gear and show up.
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>Can you post a list of recommended gear..
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>Card and WAP????
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>TIA
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>Marv
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>On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 17:43, Dan Haskell wrote:
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>>On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
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>>>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 ...).
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>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>I think May 15 is a reasonable target. The fact that it will coincide with
>>our monthly session helps.
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>>>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).
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>I have snipped out the rest of the message - all of which was good, but
>>not anything I need to comment on.
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>Dan
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