Hi, you might want to have a look here for choosing the hardware:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers an in column "AP" set it to yes. Once you have the driver, you can search for compatible hardware. Usually, Atheros-chips should be a good way to go, although there are different versions of them (and some of them wont go to AP-mode). I tried to accomplish the same with several USB-devices and hostap. I managed getting up an Software-802.11n access-point, but the throughput was kinda bad so I got back to the WLAN provided by the DSL-Router. Hope this helps at least a bit. Regards, Ralf -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Tamer Higazi [mailto:th9...@googlemail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012 19:19 An: gentoo-user Betreff: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint Hi people! I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other components like Notebook, Cell phone etc... Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?! like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the linux machine to act as a wlan router who offers WPA2 encrpytion. for any response I would thank you. Tamer
