On 8/4/05, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/05, Mhac Janapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This just came upon my head as I showered this morning... > > Can a Linux box act as a WiFi access point? > > > > In ascii: > > +------------------+ > > | eth0 |--->DSL > > |Linux box | > > | eth1(WiFi Card) |--->LAN > > | eth2(WiFi Card) |--->LAN > > +------------------+ > > Just a wild idea... > > Yes. Your card must support master mode, and your box should have the > hostapd package installed. Chipsets that can do such would include the > Prism2/2.5/3, Prism54, and Atheros-based cards. > > Taming the wild idea - unless you're shaving pesos off for an > "enterprise" wireless deployment (e.g. you want to integrate RADIUS > authentication together with WPA-EAP et.al) it's much cheaper in the > short run and long run to just buy a SOHO access point or wireless > enabled router - as such consumes less power than any x86-based PC, > aside from the money and time you'd spend building the > wireless-enabled Linux box.
Yea if you really want a cheap embedded linux access point buy a linksys wrt54g and install a wrt distro on it. --ed Eduardo Tongson <leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~ed> _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
