[isf-wifidog] Radius Accounting & Windows Firmware Installer (Sagar)

[Proulx François]

I have no problem distributing a Windows installer, although none of  
the programmers in the Wifidog crew have Windows boxes. We are all  
Mac OS X / Linux. If someone has windows programming knowledge fine.


On 27-Oct-2005, at 6:14 , Sagar wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for your responses but a windows installer would really help  
> easing out install and build process.
>
>
>
> Can someone explain why LINKSYS built a separate windows Installer  
> besides their Web interface which does pretty much good job.
>
> The answer is very simple they want to take stress away from people  
> who would be actually installing it. It’s an option if u want U can  
> use it.
>
>
>
> I read at wifidog website  “Install of WIFI dog is purely technical  
> and limited to system administrator or people who know LINUX/UNIX  
> well”. Now that is good as far as you want to be in side your small  
> domain but if you want to go global u need something as easy as  
> CLCIK CLICK finish which average Windows user is used to for his  
> life and always reluctant to change. There are number of open  
> source projects and I have been investigating lot of them over  
> years, they mainly failing as lack of official support and ease of  
> install/maintain process. What is a use of a system if software  
> itself costs nothing but install & support costs a fortune.
>
>
>
> I have been looking at hotspots for couple of years and I still  
> remember a day when I went to visit XYZ (Can’t name them but they  
> are biggest brand worldwide) technology center here in UK. They  
> came up with a grand marketing idea but bit foolish to sell hotspot  
> device(like WRt54G) for 199 pounds and then have installers all  
> over country who will charge extra 500/1000 pounds for each venue.  
> Result…Couple of years later they went bust loosing millions. The  
> reason is very simple , Initial hotspot deployment cost were high  
> and returns were too low. If you look at initial cost it was high  
> because they didn’t engaged end user directly but put technical  
> people (installers) who will charge absolutely any amount. I have  
> spoken to people who have charged in a region of 2000 pounds (3500 
> $) for couple of days work.
>
>
>
> Let’s think what a normal user need?
>
> Consider a café or Restaurant owner who doesn’t know much about  
> computers and definitely not LINUX but been using MS word and  
> windows. He wants to put a hotspot in his area for his users or for  
> his community.  He can easily afford it these days as broadband  
> with 2 MBPS downstream is sold here for 15 pounds.
>
>
>
> I would be really happy if I can ask him to follow these  
> instructions…..
>
> 1.         Buy WRT54G from tigerdirect.com else buy.com
>
> 2.         Configure your PC/Laptop for DHCP (Everyone knows how to  
> do it)
>
> 3.         Power it on and HIT RESET BUTTON to get WRT at it’s  
> default settings (IP 192.168.1.1)
>
> 4.         Connect WRT54G LAN port (Any one of them from 1 to 4) to  
> your PC/Laptop’s LAN port using CAT5
>
> 5.         Insert my CD and fire wifidog installer .Now follow  
> instructions online
>
>
>
> What does an installer need to do?
>
> An installer should be wrapped with a WiFIdog firmware (BIN FILE)  
> which will flash BIOS with new WIFIDOG firmware. I know using TFTP  
> you can load a BIN FILE so all we need is a built in TFTP client  
> inside installer which will transfer a bin image bit by bit. We can  
> create a FLASH image using JTAG cable and Linux/windows software  
> provided by Sveasoft developer “HairyDairyMade”.
>
>
>
> Hope this makes sense And finally I am not a stupid end user but I  
> am working in software industry for more then 10 Years. I work on  
> Oracle, Sybase, SQL Servers fairly massive systems where average  
> database size is about 200GB for each of our system. I have been  
> playing with Sveasoft, DD-WRT and OPENWRT for number of years.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sagar
>
>
>
>
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