Nate Duehr wrote: > If you get cards (usually Prism chipset) that support HostAP, then yes. > > It's pretty much a roll-your-own kind of thing. Haven't seen any > Debian-specific packages for creating an AP or making it "easy" yet, > really. Of course, I'm not looking either... AP's are so cheap it's not > worth the effort unless the application is very specialized. The > PCI-based 802.11b Prism chipset cards cost roughly twice what a > discounted real AP would cost from an online vendor. The nice thing about my linux based AP is that, unlike every proprietary AP I've used, it doesn't randomly lose settings, crash, require some crummy web interface, contain stupid backdoor security problems, etc. My AP also mails me when it sees new clients, has powerful packet filtering and andwidth throttling capailities, and can be upgraded with apt-get. Since I have a home server anyway, slapping a pcmcia card in it is well worth the extra $20. The dedicated APs are somewhat useful if you're traveling or setting up a temporary network where reliability and long-tem security and maintainabily is not an issue. -- see shy jo
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