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I'm now the proud owner of an 18dBi ex-Galaxy connifer antenna with
chimney mounting bracket and mast. With the help of Ian and Jacinta it
was a very easy task of hopping up on a nearby rooftop and taking it
down. The owner of the house was extremely friendly about the whole
operation. He had signed up for the "one month free" Galaxy TV offer
years ago, and never continued with the subscription. He thought that
being paid money for a useless antenna which didn't cost him anything
in the first place was a great deal.
My WL200 has arrived, although it's waiting for me to drop it into
the machine which will later be hooked up to the Galaxy antenna. The
Omni on NodeFFB [1] is literally within a stone's throw, so I'm
expecting to be able to see it without a big antenna. NodeAIE [2]
should be reachable once the galaxy is mounted.
I need to measure out the amount of cable I need for the galaxy and
then convert it and wire everything up. Strangly enough I'm not eager
to be crawling through the cramped roof cavity above the office to do
the measurements and cabling.
Update: Have the WL200 card in my workstation. I can run it with host
the hostap drivers (which won't let me set the channel), or the
orinoco drivers (which won't let me change modes). It doesn't hang the
machine or kill the regular NIC now -- a combination of using Linux
2.4.19 and shuffling PCI cards (ick).
The wireless tools package whines about how I'm not using the latest
wireless extensions, and then promptly compiles themselves for even
earlier extensions than what the kernel is using, and proceeds to have
a big whinge about that. I suspect this may be some of my problems.
I suspect I'll need to play with it all some more before I can use
kismet effectively. Right now it's useless because I either can't
switch channels, or can't drop the card into receive-everything mode.
Update (September 2003): Still have all the gear, haven't set it up.
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeFFB
[2] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeAIE
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