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Adrian Midgley wrote:
Sputnik (Libre) wireless network software and system http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/24349.html Looks very interesting.
We are watching them carefully. It is my job to produce the gateways for our Wireless networks, and I also seem to be the only one with any network architecture experience :) We have been looking at Access Points rather than Linux for the base station function. Intel 2011 range offers dual antenna, and is small enough to mount in front of a satellite disk. If we are to use Linux for base station type roles in the network we need to get the price for a minimal PC, with USB support, down to less than 200GBP retail. We also need USB drivers for wireless cards for our purposes (or very small PC's). And the ability to keep power consumption down to access point type levels would be really nice. Anyone up on really small PC's with Linux? I think the sputnik project is interesting. I have a project plan, and this one eats another couple of paragraphs, so if it is GPL'ed I should be able to kill a couple more birds.... One US company is claiming also to have built superb ease of use into their base station type function, that saves hapless executives having to struggle with DHCP, although details were sparse. Either way the killer functionality in the Intel base stations is their repeating functionality, and it shouldn't be hard to do that in Linux with the kernel bridge features I hope. However comments from elsewhere suggest it is non-trivial. I still have to speak to those nice people at Exeter University about my plans.... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.