adhoc's blog

Recently I noticed that there have been a number of potential nodes around the Adelaide coast line. Well, tonight at the committee meeting we met with Andrew Bedford to chat about the next step in the pilot project for building a network between the Surf Life Saving clubs. Andrew has some interesting applications, I'm looking forward to see to see how this pans out. Certainly would be good to see the network grow along the coast.

Needed to do some re-formating of text files. A lot of text files. The main thing being very long unwrapped lines and I needed them to be less than 60 columns wide.

So I used the Text:Autoformat module to reformat the text; http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Text-Autoformat-1.666.0/lib/Text/Autoformat.pm

I bumped into some issues with the PDA reader not supporting UTF8 characters.

So now I'm exploring options to un-map UTF8 characters on the file reading; http://search.cpan.org/~dankogai/Encode-2.33/Encode.pm

Daniel was talking to me about a new AP called The Bullet. I screws directly onto the back of the antenna. No cable, so no cable loss. It uses power over for ethernet and power. I need to get more info because it sounds like a really nice way to get compact setup. I wonder what they cost...

After the Go West campaign last year, the Air-Stream committee is work out a plan for going south. As can be seen on the Heading South page. One new thing the committee is working on is an up to date working quote for a site. Offering an Omni, for local access and with a pair of backbone links, to extend the network. Contact the committee if you are interested.

The other items of interest for me is connecting up an IRLP node. Perhaps hosting an IRLP node at home. Need to figure out whats required there, but sounds like fun. Also at the meeting we've decided to put together a segment for the WIA broadcast.

• New Air-Stream TShirts are now available. In white with shiny embroidedness; See Daniel.
• Go South! Yes the network is pushing south. Air-Stream is working with SCARC.
• ASLAN on the 14th of March!

Linux Conf Au has gone so fast. Not sure where the last couple of days have gone.

Last night I started hacking on B.A.T.M.A.N. and make it do something a little interesting.

It not at all like OLSRd, Its supposed to be more dynamic and adaptive. So configuring it has been fun.

More later when I land home.

New Release Candidate

It is well known fact that it takes time to build quality, and sometimes
more time than expected. The OpenWrt developers would like to announce
the availability of OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.09 RC1.
You can find it at http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09_RC1

Release Candidate 1 for Kamikaze 8.09

New changes/features include:

    * Busybox upgraded to 1.11.2
    * Kernel upgrades for all targets
    * uClibc upgraded to 0.9.29
    * Firewall rewrite, fully modular netfilter/iptables support
        - Syntax of /etc/config/firewall converted to UCI
    * ipkg package manager replaced with opkg
        - package lists moved to ramdisk, lists are not retained between reboots.
        - `opkg update' must be run after each reboot before new packages are installed
    * Broadcom 47xx running reliably with the new Kernel, including b43 wireless driver
        - WEP, WDS and multi-SSID not yet supported
    - AP mode and STA mode are supported with WPA, WPA2, or no encryption
    * IMQ and Traffic shaping fixed with newer kernels (2.6.25+)
    * Sysupgrade for x86, broadcom and adm5120
    * New web interface (LuCI, Lua Configuration Interface)
    * New HAL and driver for Atheros based WiFi cards
    * Attention towards the integration of security updates
    * Build system cleanup
    * Package maintaining and updates between releases
  

Here is an intereting blog post on long distance optical links.

Its been some time since I last tried to use Jabber, but I have just upgraded mu Ubuntu 6.06 box to the latest round of patches.

Well Gaim happily connects to the Air-Stream Jabber server! w00t!

No to find which groups there are to see =)

I will be on the Air-Stream club table, looking for some folks to drop in and help answer questions. =)

All the details about the event are here.