>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> writes:
Keith> Question: What is the best management software for an AP in a Keith> desktop linux box? I have not done anything with Ralink wireless. AP mode is actually something of a rarity, at least historically. Madwifi supports it on Atheros radios. Hostap-drivers supported it on Prism radios. The new mac80211 wireless stack on Linux has been gradually improving support for access point mode. Typically, as I have read, that support is via the hostapd software (note that the hostap drivers (for Prism) and the hostapd daemon are distinct and, except for their author and in a general sense of what they aim towards, orthogonal things). I have no successful experience with hostapd at all in extremely limited attempts. If you want to try to run the radio inside the EEE Box in AP mode, I would look first at the manpage for the hostapd daemon, and/or ask pointed concrete questions of the linux-wireless.org people. I would not at all be surprised to find that AP mode doesn't work reliably on that hardware at the present time, though I might well be wrong as well. In short, I would not expect success. Oh, one other thing, the radio inside the EEE Box is *probably* (again, I could be wrong) not a mini-PCI, but rather a PCI Express Mini Card: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express_Mini_Card Compare with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_PCI All the 802.11n cards I have seen or heard of are of the newer express variety. Reviewers often don't seem to understand that they are different and incompatible physical, not to mention presumably electrical, interfaces. -- Russell Senior, Secretary [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
