Setup outdoor wireless

I work at a garden. We have many activities in the summer. I setup outdoor wireless using Cisco 1310 wireless bridges, one is root bridge and other is non-root bridge. I find if the non-root bridge behind a tree, the signal reduce from excellent to low. I am using Omni directional antenna. If I have Yagi antenna, will that help? Can I add another AP/repeater/bridge behind the non-root bridge? If yes, how to configure them? Or any other suggestion.
The configuration can be found here:
Sample of Cisco 1310 Wireless Root Bridge
http://www.howtonetworking.com/cisco/rootbridge.htm
Sample of Cisco 1310 Non-Root Bridge Configuration
http://www.howtonetworking.com/cisco/nonrootbridge.htm

This is what we like to do.
Building Switch +++ cat 5 +++ Root Bridge ? 100 feet ?-- 1st Non-root bridge ?-- 200 feet 2nd non root bridge. Between the root bridge and non-root bridge is limited 100 feet because there are some trees and it is not clear path.
So far first two bridges (root bridge and 1st non-root bridge) works fine. We would like to cover more area and we may have another wireless client that can?t reach the 1st non-root bridge, so we need to add 2nd non-root bridge. Do you think if this design is possible? If yes, how to configure it.

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broch wrote:I have ipw3945 and iwl3945 working with wpa2 (or vpn)
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to connect to the network I am using "wireless assistant" http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.ph … tent=21832
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--kernel 2.6.23.x
install iwlwifi and iwlwifi-3945-ucode
--kernel 2.6.24.x
install only iwlwifi-3945-ucode as kernel has iwlwifi module incorporated
default iwlwifi does not support LED so I suggest to install something like knemo for kde to show active network icon. The latest iwlwifi does support LED but it is not yet incorporated into 2.6.24 vanilla kernel.
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vpn
I am using cisco vpn. Client is provided by vpn host, cisco does not provide vpn client for individual download, but you can find it on line.
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/opt/cisco-vpnclient/bin/vpnclient connect vpn pcf_file_name
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From my experience none of linux gui for vpn works reliably so you will have to resort to the command line.
That is all, a lot of writing, but actual ipw3945 and iwl3945 configuration is straightforward and very short.
Hopefully this will work for you.
forgot to add regarding vpnclient (cisco)
you will have to modify
/etc/init.d/vpnclient_init
line 38 and line 101
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Last edited by broch (2008-02-07 15:55:45)

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