[Bismark-devel] Bismark flash success! + 5 GHz radio issue

Nick Feamster feamster at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Apr 20 18:14:02 EDT 2011


Cool... I'll change instructions.  Just wanted to run my experience by folks first (and for my own benefit, before I forgot :-)

On Apr 20, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Dave Taht wrote:

> On 04/20/2011 03:24 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
>>> A few other points
>>> - strangely, telnet didn't work after flash, but I was able to set the root password by going to the web interface instead
>> 
> hmm
> 
>>> - it would be nice if we could enable the radios by default, perhaps as part of a startup script
>>> 
> The problem here is that there is a script ("wifi") that runs on first boot that has to dynamically determine the mac addresses. I otherwise mostly agree, it would be nice if the radios went up by default, but that is "insecure" by default....
> 
> So maybe there is a way to get wifi to run with a reasonable default for encryption etc?
> 
>>> To idiot-proof the instructions, we should tell people when to connect the WAN port to the uplink (perhaps right before a reboot, after configuring the root password?  that seems to be a fool-proof place)
> 
> It's a wiki, anybody can change it. If you think something can be improved or changed, go right ahead and *do* it. Someone can always change it differently on you later. There are no trees to be killed, only electrons to be burnt. Do try to call people's attention to dubious changes in email...
> 
>>> 
>>> -Nick
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