-----Original Message----- From: Kris A. Wotipka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 10:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Kris and Adam at it again...
For any of those out there who might be interested, Adam and I have a wireless networking / semi-pushed .jpg project we are working on this weekend. Here are the details with a bit of tech worked in (John/Dustin, please feel free to copy this to the BRLUG list if you wish): This weekend is the "Giant Omelette Festival" in downtown Abbeville. Adam and I have set up a wireless hop (2 Linksys WAP11's running point to point (MAC specific) 128bit WEP) from the "Square" (central town park) across the street to the library where it connects into their network / T1 system. On the "square" side we have a Linksys Router / Wireless Access Point that we are "backfeeding" the switch on. By "backfeeding" I mean that we have hooked the WAP11 into the LAN side and effectively shut down the routing functions so we can use just the switch / wireless access point features only. Into this we have a 486 laptop (win95) and a 400mhz e-machine (RH7.2) so that visitors can check their e-mail. There is another e-machine that we are using to update the "LIVE" website with digital pictures that we take during the course of the day. This also acts as our "chat" terminal for people to ask questions about the festival. For the two supergeeks who put this together (Adam and I), we are enjoying wireless roaming within the square with two PCMCIA cards in our laptops. Actually Adam is enjoying it. I haven't had a chance to look into how to pass WEP or group info to the wireless card but it came right up with a PCMCIA service start/stop under Mandrake 8.1 and runs well without WEP enabled. Lastly, we are using an appliance that has a webserver built in that pushes up to 4 different channels of jpg. images to the web. It's a neat toy designed for CCTV remote monitoring. I don't know how it would work under hundreds of users but it's worked fine so far. Sunday, we will be hopping some additional video (wirelessly) about 300' so that we can bring the world (sounds dramatic huh) the process by which one cooks a 5000 egg omelette. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to send them in. Here are the links: the omelette fest official site: www.giantomelette.org the "LIVE" pages: www.abbeville-online.com/omelette hopefully by posting this it does not jinx us and we fall on our faces tomorrow... kw ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
