OT: For you radio guys! [OpenHSMM-ap New OBSD Project]

[Darrin Chandler]

I know there are more than a few hams out there, and others interested
in radio/wireless stuff. You may find this interesting. If you want to
skip to the chase the site is http://www.openhsmm.org/

----- Forwarded message from Paul Pescitelli <paul.pescitelli at gmail.com> -----

Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:16:07 -0400
From: "Paul Pescitelli" <paul.pescitelli at gmail.com>
To: misc at openbsd.org
Subject: OpenHSMM-ap New OBSD Project

Folks,

For the last 6 months or so, I have been working on a project to take
OpenBSD 3.8 and create an appliance type interface for a Wireless
Access Point. Before I get into the nitty gritty details, here is  a
little about the name. The name is derived from the combination of
Open Source projects designed to facilitate the ideas that are put
forth by the Amateur Radio Relay League High Speed Multi Media Task
Force. ( http://www.arrl.org/hsmm ). This group plays an integral role
in providing guidelines for creating Emergency Communications networks
using Amateur Radio equipment from HF frequencies up through 5.8GHZ.

The goal of the project was to create a relatively small footprint AP
that could be put on a compact flash, plug it in to a Soekris single
board computer (no moving parts) to be deployed on rooftops and
towers. For those of you that are familiar with m0n0wall this will
look very similar. After speaking with Manuel Kasper it seemed to be
somewhat easy to port the m0n0wall FreeBSD code base for this effort.

Visit the web page ( http://www.openhsmm.org ) for some of the initial
and planned features.

Keep in mind that this is an ALPHA version, not all of the
functionality you see works properly. It does currently function as a
basic AP with WEP. 98% of the testing so far has been with the Winstom
CM-9 miniPCI card. I would appreciate constructive feedback. If you
are interested in contributing to the project let me know. If you see
something that needs to be fixed please send me a diff.

and Yes, there are plans in the very near future for migrating the
kernel to 3.9.

-- 
CIAO - Paul Pescitelli

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Unix Advocate and creator of OpenHSMM
Wire Access Point OpenBSD appliance.
www.openhsmm.org
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