On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:19:54 -0800 GC <g...@maillr.com> wrote: > There's a lot of great tutorials on how to build your own router > (wired) but I can't seem to find anything that covers steps on how to > build your own wireless router? Anyone have some advice on this topic > or can share some articles, step-by-step tutorials, links, etc on > this?
I would think that most people who are interested in hacking their wireless routers gets a model that supports one of the third-party firmwares - I bought a TP-Link Archer C5 and installed OpenWRT on it. This has worked very well for me, but of course I don't know what your needs are. OpenWRT has a basic packaging system, not as nice as dpkg/APT, but it does the job. Going this route will get you hardware that is built for the job, while still giving you a quite flexible system. I know that OpenWRT is available for x86, but I've never tried it. Look around their website[1], there are tons of documentation there. If there is one place that would have a lot of the information you would need for building such a system from scratch, I would guess this would be it. Since OpenWRT uses Free software and is based on Linux, you should be able to translate a lot of it to a Debian system. There are also many friendly and helpful people on their forum[2] who know a *lot* about wifi, I suggest you ask there for advice. Petter [1] https://openwrt.org/ [2] https://forum.openwrt.org/ -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."