<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Hi Chris, </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>The Wifidog gateway has been tuned for running on embedded devices such as the Linksys WRT54g (it works beautifully on top of OpenWRt, a Linux distribution for the Linksys box). So the WRT54g is configured in such a way that we create three interfaces : WiFi which is monitored by WiFidog, LAN ports which we leave open for plain wired connectivity and WAN port for connecting to the backbone. This is the typical configuration we use in Montreal, but you might decide to bridge interfaces so that WiFidog can listen to wired port as well. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You can download our special OpenWRT firmware for the WRT54g here (works for WRT54G up to version 4 or any WRT54GL)</DIV><DIV><A href="http://ilesansfil.org/dist/install/openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin">http://ilesansfil.org/dist/install/openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Of course, the gateway could be installed on any Linux box, but it's much more convenient and practical in an embedded device. Then there's the authentication server which requires an Apache, PHP5, Postgresql install...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hope that answers some of your questions.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 6-Dec-2005, at 6:32 , Rowson Christopher wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P><FONT face="Arial">Greetings all,</FONT> </P><P><FONT face="Arial">My name is Chris, and I am looking at building a captive portal wireless network for a library service in the UK.</FONT> </P><P><FONT face="Arial">Initially I looked at the nocat project, but found WifiDog and was very impressed at the cms based info service which would provide a great location based news service for our users.</FONT></P><P><FONT face="Arial">I wonder if anyone could point me towards a good source of documentation for WifiDog to help me along with the project. Like many open source projects WifiDog is truly innovative, but is perhaps lacking on the documentation front.</FONT></P><P><FONT face="Arial">I seem to have had a little difficulty in finding some comprehensive setup instructions for the gateway device, and was wondering if setting it up is a little like setting up the nocat gateway. I imagine that I require two network cards; One connected to the LAN to provide internet connection and to see the auth server, and the other to connect onto a wireless access point.</FONT></P><P><FONT face="Arial">I know it's always a pain in the bottom to answer the basic questions like this, but any help you could offer me at all would be greatly appreciated. Our project hopes to provide free internet access on a not for profit basis, and I hope that WifiDog will do this admirably.</FONT></P> <BR><P><FONT face="Arial">Thanks</FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT face="Arial">Chris</FONT> </P> <BR> <BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">###############################################</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If you<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">have received this email in error please notify the system manager. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper® for the presence of computer viruses.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">###############################################</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">WiFiDog mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:WiFiDog@listes.ilesansfil.org">WiFiDog@listes.ilesansfil.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://listes.ilesansfil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wifidog">http://listes.ilesansfil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wifidog</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>