I run an Alfa AWUS036NH when requiring a high powered wireless card, works well
under debian. Realtek driver iirc. I haven't run it as an ap but assume it
would work.
http://www.alfa.com.tw/products_show.php?pc=34&ps=21
D
Jason White <[email protected]> wrote:
>Allan Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If you have a gigE port you could also use a router such as the
>Linksys
>> E3200 (and friends) in AP mode. Dual band concurrent, 3 aerials per
>> band (a big advantage over sticks).
>> Runout price $89 at PCDIY - claimed to be "in stock".
>
>Thanks. I'm actually hoping to avoid an extra device/power supply,
>though that
>might be inevitable. There isn't much room on the desks here anymore.
>I'm also
>looking for something with a command line interface so I don't have to
>deal
>with Web interfaces for consumer-grade devices, i.e., bad when you want
>to
>administer them remotely, usually not wonderful accessibility and
>painful to
>use in general, in my experience.
>
>Getting a router and flashing OpenWRT onto it would be another
>possibility.
>However, the desktop machine is handling all of my networking - ADSL,
>DNS,
>DHCP, mail, SIP, etc. I haven't looked hard yet, but my quick searches
>didn't
>identify any device with enough memory and CPU for all of these
>functions that
>offered a small form factor and lower power (with a PCI slot for the
>ADSL card
>and another slot for wireless). Such a device would be tempting, of
>course, as
>I could then move all the networking out of my primary workstation.
>
>A friend is in a similar position (though with cable and ADSL), and
>thinking
>that a small form-factor system capable of running a typical Linux
>distribution would be better than OpenWRT on consumer-grade hardware.
>Apparently, you can't upgrade OpenWRT in place from one release to
>another -
>you have to re-install, at least on some routers. That's annoying, to
>say the
>least.
>
>If anyone reading this has any ideas, suggestions are of course
>welcome.
>
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