[Mesh] Introduction

[Steve Berl]

Never mind, just got the confirmation email. All is well.


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Steve Berl <steveberl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I just added it, but it isn't showing on the map. Is there some
> moderator step or something?
>
> -steve
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Miguel Vargas <unroar at 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 at gmail.com> 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 at 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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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> -steve
>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> -steve
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-steve
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