[tech] UCC Status Update 7/3

[David Adam]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Bob Adamson wrote:

> A number of things have happened over the last few days, here they are in no
> particular order:
> 
> -Now that Martello and Mooneye are back, we have a clubroom network again, and
> wireless should work (or will follow very soon). Most other remote services
> are back up.

Wireless should be working.

I made VLANs and multi-SSID stuff work on the wireless AP, so it now 
rebroadcasts both UniComputerClub and SNAP. The next step will be to 
install hostapd and get UniComputerClub secured and authing against 
RADIUS; I don't know if hostapd and the Broadcom multiple SSID stuff works 
together, although I see no reason why not.

I think the wireless AP software will need upgrading as well - it's still 
running OpenWRT 7.09 from 2007, for which packages are no longer 
available. 10.03 has just been released with some useful-looking changes, 
including a 2.6 kernel for our hardware which actually supports the 
wireless. I might have a play with this before the LAN.

David Adam
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au

P.S. Big, big thanks to everyone who's busted their guts to get things at 
UCC fixed. I wish I could have helped more.