nepal workshop notes
this is some personal day to day notes from the nepal wireless workshop.
musings rather than official notes.
The small things
On the first day of a workshop, it is always the small things that matter.
High level guys may snear at this – well, stay high level, but this is where it’s really at 
We think we have gotten pretty good at this -
knowing our checklists and how to get what where.
But … what we forgot this time:
- paper stickers
- generation shift in computer peripherals: we ordered mice n keyboards, they did come – but they are all PS/2 and even DIN, no USB. modern devices only have USB. Bike back to the market we must …
Practice what you preach
This workshop is a lot about reducing power consumption, low power computing, autonomous computing -
yet we see 10 heavy desktop PCs arriving for participants.
It’s nobody’s fault – but next time, let us get 10 fit-PCs or nettops instead, best everything on 12 volts.
Wireless workshop wired
Also, next time let us make sure the participants’ PC s have wireless cards.
OpenWRT on WRT54GL nuisance
We built a network using 5 brand new WRT54GLs, running some 2008 version of kamikaze – and encountered strange problems. a kismet scan shows that all 5 boxes report the same MAC address (on both wireless and wired interfaces). Hhmm. not good.
Reflashing with newer OpenWRT Kamikaze removes the prob.
(to be continued)
add:
Language
Network workshops sans Linux …
