-steve
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Miguel Vargas <unroar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Steve,
Could you mark your house on
http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/ as a
potential node site?
Thanks
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Steve Berl <steveberl(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
> As long as we are doing introductions, I'm Steve Berl. I'm kind of new
> to wireless and mesh stuff, but I do have a lot of IP network experience,
> having worked at Cisco for 16 years. I sort of specialized there in ways to
> make deployment, configuration, and management easy and cheap.
>
> I'm also getting into the RF side of things, doing a bit of amateur
> radio astronomy with RTL-SDR, and turns out I really like building antennas
> of various kinds, so if we want to whip up some high gain yagis or
> cantennas, I'm up for it.
>
> I also live in Piedmont partway up the hill, and from my roof I have
> have line of site to all of Lake Merritt and a chunk of downtown Oakland,
> Emeryville, and into Berkeley. The roof has easy access, and it is easy to
> drop cables down from there into my basement/machineroom, so for testing
> those long point to point links...
>
>
> -steve
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian(a)freebsd.org>wrote;wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm Adrian. I'm a wifi hacker. I worked at Qualcomm Atheros for 18
>> months on various open and closed source wifi things. I'm also the
>> FreeBSD wireless developer.
>>
>> My main focus is FreeBSD but I know a bunch of stuff about openwrt and
>> the Linux wireless stack and Atheros drivers.
>>
>> Right now I'm working on FreeBSD support for the latest Atheros chips
>> and SoCs (the AR933x and AR934x stuff), as well as finishing off the
>> 11n support for TDMA and 802.11s mesh.
>>
>> I came along to the mesh meetup because being a developer of this
>> stuff in a vacuum is a bit silly. I've been looking for local groups
>> who are interested in wifi and want to do strange things with it. This
>> group seems to be that way inclined. :-) I'm also looking for
>> victims^Whelpers to test out the long-distance side of this TDMA
>> support in FreeBSD. It's supposed to work up to dozens of miles, but I
>> just don't have access to places to mount equipment to test. I'm
>> hoping that I can find some people here who are willing to help me
>> with this. I can provide the wireless hardware; all I need here is an
>> internet hookup and places to mount stuff.
>>
>> I'm happy to help out any way I can.
>>
>> If you're all interested, I can do some talks on how this stuff works
>> and how long distance links work/don't work.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> -adrian
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