On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:03:37AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Bruce Park wrote:
>
> >Hey guys,
> >
> >Is there anyway to use Debian as an access point?
>
> I assume you mean wireless access point and 802.11b is the goal.
>
> 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.
>
> Nate
>
Hi Nate, etc.
one of the fellows at a local lug (nycwireless.net) made pebble linux
for making AP with debian.
check it out.
-Kev
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