Hi, the venue(s) dont have a suitable wireless setup for us, so we'll need to set up our own. For this purpose we have plenty (30) of APs which will need to be flashed (aka installed) and distributed on site and then moved again and again, to optimize the signal quality :-) We wont need all 30 APs, I assume for MT 10-15 will be enough, while for FdS 2 or 3 should be fine. We have three modells to deploy, though I suggest to only use 2: - 15 fonera1 (some new, some used) - 12 bufallo airstation g54 (brand new, unopened :) - 4 fonera2 I suggest not to use the fonera2s, as we only have few of them. Also people can use them to get d-i working on them :-) The bufallos have 5 lan ports, so they are best distributed in peoples room (where we (=you) will need to lay cat5 cables too...), while the foneras (which only have 1 lan port) should be placed where we dont want people to plug in extra cables, like the talk rooms and such. I suggest to install OpenWRT on all of them, as it supports all hardware and because we have documentation for it already and because I'm familar with it, so I can help if needed. http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf7/OpenWRT has some old instructions on building kamikaze, the latest OpenWRT release, as well as info how to flash the foneras. I dunno how to flash the bufallos yet, but I'm sure its documented somewhere on the web :) If you want to help, you should obviously arrive at DebCamp early and you will need to work together with the admin team :-) regards, Holger http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/Hardware(2f)Buffalo.html http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/Hardware(2f)Fon.html
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