Meeting:2007/07/24

Meeting (to be) held on 2007/07/24 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 17 July 2007 19:00:00 Next meeting: 31 July 2007 19:00:00

Agenda

• ZeplerNode Update
• Removal of SUSU node
• Return of Buffalo APs
• Flash memory of Netgear and DLink
• Progress of orders for Meraki and SMC? APs
• AOB

Minutes

• In Attendance: Dave Tarrant, Nick Humpreys, James Morse, Andrew Willmott, Dave Newman, Jamie Robinson, Kevin Page, Paul Dart.
• ZeplerNode Update
  • No significant progress this week.
  • Has nocatsplash installed, can't get nocatauth working.
  • Paul will try and put Chillispot, WiFiDog or something similar on it.
• Removal of SUSU node
  • Paul and Nick were going to remove it at a weekend but one or other of them are busy for the next couple of weekends
  • Dave Tarrant, Jamie and Andrew volunteered to take it down this weekend, day and time dependent on the weather.
  • Need to contact Trevor Spence (SUSU Buildings Manager) to confirm time and date.
• Return of Buffalo APs
  • Paul has returned them to Shaun Ford and Shaun said there should be no problem returning them and getting a refund.
• Flash memory of Netgear and DLink
  • The Netgear (WG102) has 32mb Flash and 8mb RAM.
    • Paul soldered a serial port on to try and flash the firmware without success
  • The DLink (DWL-2100AP) has 4mb Flash and 16mb SDRAM.
    • No serial port
    • Paul trying to build own JTag to flash the firmware.
    • Kevin suggested contacted ESD or other electronics research groups to see if they has a JTag cable we could use.
• Progress of orders for Meraki and SMC? APs.
  • According to Shaun Ford these have both been ordered but may take some time to arrive.
• AOB
  • Progress on Faraday/Chemistry Node
    • Paul will start work on it to bring it up to the level of the Zepler node.