Who: Russell Senior
What: OpenWrt on Realtek-based Switches
Where: 1930 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201-5304, Room 86-01
When: Thursday, August 6, 2026 at 7 PM
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
Summary:
Russell will talk about OpenWrt on Realtek-based switches, like the
EnGenius EWS2910P and Zyxel GS1900 line of managed switches. Some
devices provide Power over Ethernet with port-level control. The talk
will include some fun demonstrations of installation and reverse
engineering.
Bio:
Russell has been a Linux user since December 1992. Since 2005, he's been
involved with the Personal Telco Project, and has been the President of
that organization since 2009, building public-access wifi networks and
advocating for better telecommunications policy. He's also been active
in an effort to energize political support for a public fiber-optic
last-mile network in Portland in order to break the monopoly power of
the deregulated incumbent carriers. In recent years, he's become more
active in recruiting speakers for PLUG, kind of accidentally falling
into the coordinator role as Michael Dexter stepped back. This talk
represents a failure to find a better speaker, not only Russell's
failure, but the failure of the entire PLUG community. Shame on one and
all! ;-)
Calagator: https://calagator.org/events/1250482653
With luck, the talk will also be streamed live here:
http://www.twitch.tv/kngbwlf, and later posted to YouTube.
PLUG is back at Portland State University, thanks to the Computer
Science Department and to Andrew Greenberg. The room is in the basement
of the PSU Engineering Building (also connected underground to the
Fourth Avenue Building, or FAB). Enter through the Engineering Building.
The outside door will be locked, but there should be someone present at
the entrance to let you in starting at 6:40pm until 7pm. There will be a
sign on the door with a phone number you can SMS if there isn't someone
there to let you in immediately.
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Russell Senior
PLUG Volunteer
[email protected]
