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@freebsd.org> 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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