[gentoo-user] gentoo as wlan-repeater...

[Jens Reinemuth]

Hi list,

i currently live in an appartment that has a very lousy 
wlan-access-point for the people. There is an AP with dd-wrt and 
WPA2-PSK... currently i only have wlan at the window in the kitchen and 
my gentoo-pc which stands about 5m away from that does not even see the 
ap while scanning.

As i also have a gentoo netbook, i thought about using this one as a 
kind of repeater for the wlan.

Both have ath5k-cards, on the netbook i use wicd (as it changes the 
networks more often...) on the PC i hardcoded the access-data in 
wpa_supplicant.conf (as the ath5k is kind of "interim-solution" until 
our house is built and i will have real wired network there)

Has anyone allready set up something like that? Which settings are 
necessary, is the ath5k able to be used as repeater (as it has to be 
client and ap at once...)?

The alternatives are a old Fritzbox 7140, a Netgear router and 2 
Fonera-Boxes (which all are packed in boxes and wait until the house is 
ready).

So i really would prefer the solution with using the gentoo-netbook 
instead of the routers...

Regards,

Jens