What do people like so much about Sisela?
Well, a number of things actually... :) here's my personal list:
+ it fits one disk, which makes it a good solution for low-cost wireless-nodes built from recycled hardware + lots of useful features (dhcpd, sshd, ...), most of which i haven't had the time yet to check out + its (afaik) completely free software + its very configurable + its very stable, which unfortunately can`t be said about floppy drives and disks. we had one node running it for over 6 months, until we had to reboot for configuration changes - only to discover that the disk had not survived the time...
we are using sisela quite extensively here in weimar, germany, for building a community-owned wireless network (http://subsignal.org/wireless), and have so far had good experiences with it. using old 486 & pentium-I machines, 802.11b pcmcia cards and a floppy we can cut the costs for a node as low as approx. 50 euros (excluding antennas). which is about 40 euros less than the "high-end" solution, the linksys wrt54g's for the not-so-shell-addicted people.
all in all, great stuff. we appreciate your work. :)
that said.... a few, uhm, questions?
- do you see a chance of including ndiswrapper into the next release? [http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/] we've had some issues with recent pci-wireless cards not being supported by the prism54 drivers, such as the SMC2802W v2.
- the Makefile... hm.. maybe there is a possibility to mirror the necessary files for sisela in one location, so the wget doesn`t break?
best regards, (from another busy student;) ),
-lars