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18/05/2008
Well didnt get a chance to go up on the roof and do a sweep, but did
get a mast and assemble the who kit together
Will insert a photo shortly.
The above image has my Directional (you can see that attached near
the top), with the omni (the white tube) attached at the top (you can
make it out through the grill of the omni.
The WRAP (outdoor weather proof) is mounted at the bottom.
14/05/2008
While after a year of gathering dust (cough's) I finally got around
to doing some more work & update.
. Reinstall Voyage , this time Version 0.5 onto my 512 CF card. .
Installed THTTPD and setup a basic web page . used apt-get to install
Kismet on the WRAP. . Performed a Kismet scan from my lounge room and
it found 5 devices just with the omni connected. . Installed Kismet
(windows) and connected to Kismet drone running on WRAP and got the
same data.
Plans - Well if all goes well with my time for te weekend I shall go
get a mast from bunnings for attaching to the chimney on sunday, and
then do a 360 scan with my Dish in Vertical to a Kismet drone/log and
then same scan with it in vertical.
I hope to publish the results here.
19/5/2007
Well got both network cards connected, one to a 9db Omni and one to a
6db panel, and configured one card to 10.10.200.1(essid NodeJTX1 [2])
and other to 10.10.210.1(essid NodeJTX0 [3]) with each having a
.10-.20 DHCP scope. (yes I know I havent been allocated IPs yet, this
was just for quick testing as they are easy to type.)
Testing with my trusty ipaq 3660, PCMCIA expansion pack, an Orinoco
gold card and running ministumbler I successfully found both nodes.
Having the Omni Jammed between 2 cushions on my couch to hold it
upright and the panel balancing on top of the couch, I have just now
gone for a wander NSEW (as I am on a intersection corner) to see what
signal strenght and distance I got.
Even from the mount point in the lounge, I have to say the distance
was I got before all signal dropped off was
I am still having one problem though. After I do a soft reboot (SSH
into the WRAP and do a reboot command) while the device list shows the
SR2 card, I cant find it at all with my Ipaq. If anybody has any ideas
why this occurs please let me know, mainly cause the SR2 card is meant
to be my Omni and my CM9 for the directional 24db dish eventually.
18/5/2007
Well This is me here and I am setting up a new node (obviously).
I had recently purchased in the last month a WRAP2 board, outdoors
box and 2 minipci cards to go with it from Yawarra [4] and using the
CF image "voyage031_512_Eber.img.gz" [5] from their site I had no end
of problems getting the damn wireless things to work! (The OS did boot
up, and using Putty I was able to SSH into the ethernet port)
I finally stumbled over this reference page [6] and everything
started to click into place.
What I will do is document what I did to get it working, including
the testing steps I did on the way, and hopefully post it.
But with all the recent rain I still gotta get up to the roof yet and
find what A/B/G nodes I can see and posible connect to.
-Randy At JTX.
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeJTX
[2] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeJTX1
[3] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeJTX0
[4] http://www.yawarra.com.au/
[5] http://www.yawarra.com.au/sw-osimages.php#linux
[6] http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
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