{"id":405,"date":"2010-04-11T14:35:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2010-04-11T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:36:15","slug":"a-new-look-for-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/rf\/a-new-look-for-wireless\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Look for Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve done quite a bit in the past few months with the neighborhood wireless project.<\/p>\n

First off, I’ve moved everything from the Linksys WRT-54GTM devices to an Engenius EOC-2610<\/a>. The system Atheros AR2315 based. (More pictures here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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An Engenious Naked. Totally hot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The firmware is still OpenWRT<\/a> kamikazee (I dumped DD-WRT a while ago on the 54G’s), with a patched version of the NoDogSplash<\/a> captive portal\u00a0 (to prevent the graceful exit when a null token is submitted, also to support a “Magic token”, since I don’t truly care about it being the same one issued during the pre-authentication phase).<\/p>\n

The only lingering issue relates to my version of the hardware not handling a reboot, which is a known issue apparently related to the kernel’s watchdog driver<\/a>. There’s already a patch out there, and I plan on implementing it soon. (At present, an “init 6” will simply cause the unit to stop responding – requiring an actual powercycling) The good news is that I’ve never had to actually reboot the device for any reason.<\/p>\n

Other installed packages include NProbe<\/a> for Netflow export and\u00a0 SNMP<\/a> for monitoring\/graphing<\/a> purposes. In all honesty, the build is rather simple but effective. It’s also waterproof – the Engenius EOC-2610 is built for outdoor use – complete with waterproof housing and PoE support (albeit based on the warnings on the PoE injector, I don’t believe<\/em> it’s 802.3a[ft] compatible)<\/p>\n

As of this morning, we’re up to 13 users in the neighborhood. Shortly, I’ll be lighting up the Eastern portion of the neighborhood, which will provide access to a larger number of users.<\/p>\n

Oh, and there’s a new look to the portal:<\/p>\n

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The new Midtown WiFi Theme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new look is a slight modification to the Lorea Hub Theme<\/a>, with additional imagery from istockphoto.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve done quite a bit in the past few months with the neighborhood wireless project. First off, I’ve moved everything from the Linksys WRT-54GTM devices to an Engenius EOC-2610. The system Atheros AR2315 based. (More pictures here) The firmware is still OpenWRT kamikazee (I dumped DD-WRT a while ago on the 54G’s), with a patched … Continue reading A New Look for Wireless<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11,18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engenius","category-rf","category-wireless","category-wrt-54g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}