I totally don't know anything about how you would go about doing this, but it seems to me that if there were enough storage space on a wap11 2.2/6 or a dwl900AP+ or any of those to run the web based services they all manage today and the mac filtering and AP functions etc, would it be remotely possible to "rework" the firmware to provide authentication services? you know, an access point that can do a rough version of the Tmobil setup. That would be cool. anybody thought of hacking up the embedded web server or got any idea how you would begin? really I'm just looking for the starting point. I'm a network guy and I don't delve far into that part of things. simply put: I have no linux box, and I'd love to find a way to do the following: unpack the firmware onto a directory on my laptop, edit HTML files using a standard editor. repack and flash onto the AP's... I think everyone is familiar w/ Andrew hakman? I bet he'd have some insight. That kid is wap11 smart. I don't know exactly what you could/would do with that, but I'd be interested to play. thought that comes to mind: Real estate agents could put one of these AP's in all of the houses they represent, then people driving by could pull a page with all the details, contact info, whatever... just have to get the word out. if something like that were adopted by a major, like weichert or century21... boom: there's a whole industry, right?
just brainstorming a bit... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Mattick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wireless List List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:41 AM Subject: How does this work? ... RE: [BAWUG] Extra Value Meal Deal > So, Wednesday has been and gone and so MuckD's system should be up and > running by now. Does anyone have any precise details about how this works? > > I'd be interested to hear how they provide a "key" to enable access to one's > free "happy hour's" usage and the mechanism by which internet access is > provided. The smart's must be in the AP so maybe customers access the AP web > server (as internet portal), enter "key" and away they go. AP then bumps > them off after 1 hour. > > Nathan. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Grimes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:02 PM > To: Wireless List List > Subject: [BAWUG] Extra Value Meal Deal > > > McDonald's Adds WLAN Access to Its Menu > > In a marriage of fast food and fast Internet, 10 McDonald's > restaurants in the New York metropolitan area today will begin > offering an hour of free wireless Internet access with the > purchase of an Extra Value Meal. > http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eUIz0EXgz40DUm0vDk0Aa > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
