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PierToPier.netWiFi
Wireless Stuff, Including Meshap, and Stuff for piertopier.net
Sat 14th June 2014
A day in the office
Darwin to Wadeye, 400km each way, 180 of them on Dirt with the wet season fast aproacing and a 2WD
Sat 14th June 2014
PeopleOfSurrey
People Of Surrey You Do Not Need a 4WD, I do. That precious cargo of WiFi access points must get through.
Sat 23rd May 2009
Trial Period on Chillispot
Chillispot is a Captive Portal or Splash screen system for wifi hotspots and the like, we (PierToPier.net) OK mostly me have been hacking around with it for a while. Here's how to allow limited guest .....
Tue 23rd October 2007
Muddy Linux
A small linux distro, developed from pebble linux from New York Wireless, designed to be booted from a 128 Meg CF card. This was used for at least 2 years to run PierToPier.net's seafront wifi .....
Mon 13th March 2006
PierToPier.net Development Environment
Believe it or not I had to tidy my room to fit all the junk in that was needed. key: Badly modded case on ancient desktop, bits of this came out of a 386, Athlon 1.3 running windows and Linux. .....
Sun 4th September 2005
camserv on Slackware
Camserv won't compile, this is a common problem these days apparently. New versions off glibc or gcc or whatever its called are apparently less tolerant of missing bits than the older verions. If .....
Tue 2nd August 2005
No Cat Splash on openwrt
To get captive portal working on openwrt you need to do the following: Get White Russian. from openwrt.org Set it up using the instructions on their site. Warning do turn boot wait on as per .....
Sun 26th June 2005
Orinocos's Still Rule
The first major wireless network cards on the market were produced by Lucent. Most famous are the Orinoco silver and Gold cards. Now made by Agere. They rock. They're only 30 mW not the more modern .....
Sun 26th June 2005
Intel Wireless LAN cards
Intel WiFI cards, as found in centrino laptops and others are a real nightmare. The symptoms I've noticed include: Refusal to connect to unencrypted networks. Windows says "Are you sure you .....
Fri 10th June 2005
Auto Power Swich
Switch on your pc when power applied, not by pushing a button. Originally designed for EPIA MS8000 Mini ITX motherboard, this baby will switch your pc on when eve it gets power. Description: A .....
Fri 13th May 2005
Quantum Mechanics
This is Inspired, its probably copyright too, still some times you just go to take a risk. I believe it originally came from Private Eye Private Eye suing someone, rather than being sued, that .....
Fri 31st December 2004
Lucent PCMCIA - ISA adapter (Vadem)
I had a PCMCIA - ISA adapter cheap of ebay. When I first put it in win98 it windows died, wouldn't boot and said Quote: Error in IO Subsys or some such nonsense. Don't worry windows .....
Fri 31st December 2004
Static IP with a Mesh AP MeshBox
The Mesh ap is quite automated. As such using Linux commands to configure it after it has booted is not a good idea. Mesh ap will automatically become WiFi to internet router IF it detects .....
Fri 31st December 2004
Factory Reset
Use of the mesh box command "factoryreset", can solve problems with wiana, and settings of meshboxes that has changed position or hardware in the mesh. However most custom changes are NOT over .....