September 28th, 2009
So I’m getting close to finishing phase two of the OpenWRT project. I got the original WRT54G apart on Sunday (over a two weeks ago now) and scoped out the serial port, mainly making sure it was there. I talked Isaac into stopping at Fry’s after swimming the weekend before last, so I picked up the parts to wire up the serial ports. (Header connector, some ribbon cable and misc stuff) I ordered the line level converters last week and they came on Saturday, so I can plug regular RS232 devices into the serial ports. I’ll make some holes in the cases for the serial ports after wiring them up and making sure they work.
Now that the birthday weekend is over and things are settling back down, I got back to radio stuff. I just finished wiring up the replace Yaesu rotator and testing it, so the next nice day that I can skip out of work and Scott/Art are available, I’ll get it installed. Hopefully before next spring. :-)
I just cleared the work bench off and am about to start hacking the serial ports into place. I haven’t worked with the ribbon cables connectors in a long time, so this should be fun.
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September 27th, 2009
Looking forward to spending a little time tonite hooking up the serial ports to the WRT54g. Line level converters came yesterday.
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September 27th, 2009
BDay party whining down, time now for the rides. Isaac is having a great time play with all his buddies.
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September 27th, 2009
Taking off in a couple minutes to Isaac bday party at Remington Farm. Looks like it will be a nice day!
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September 26th, 2009
Isaac’s b-day weekend start with a exploding dishwasher and bubbles all over the floor.
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September 25th, 2009
Taking cupcakes in for Isaac b-day this morning before running into work. Busy b-day weekend.
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September 23rd, 2009
@wa7nwp can you send me a pointer to the north Texas group?
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September 21st, 2009
After finishing a couple things for work, hope to finish wiring up new rotator and then premiere of Big Bang Theory and House!
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September 21st, 2009
Not very productive day, came home after finishing the TPS report and stared in space while Advil dealt with my sinus headache.
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September 19th, 2009
Last weekends APRS Summer Gathering inspired me to move forward with a long standing plan to turn a Linksys WRT54G into packet radio hub for my house. Check out my post from last week for the details.
Well the replacement 54GL showed up from Amazon and this morning after popping enough drugs to stop the dripping of my nose, I proceeded to replace the new 54GL in my home network. This was pretty straight forward process, drop Tomato firmware on the new device and then clone my setup. Should have been easy and was right up until I put it into service and discovered I had no internet.
It seems that the wonderful ISP Comcast gets all weird about flipping the MAC address which is connected to the cable modem. I thought they stop playing these games a long time ago. The 54GL device was happy to connect, but the cable modem wouldn’t issue it an IP address or allow it to push packets. I poked at it for a while, eventually plugged the other one in and it still wouldn’t work. I then plugged my macbook directly in and that still didn’t work. I finally yanked the power on the cable modem and waited about 30 minutes. PRESTO! Now it was happy to hand out a new IP address and let packets go out into the world of tubes.
God I hate Comcast. But phase 1 is now complete. I have a really old WRT54G to hack on and a backup WRT54GL just in case. Where is my soldering iron and screw driver?
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