Re: How to build Debian-based wireless router
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:19:54 -0800
GC <gc@maillr.com> wrote:
> There's a lot of great tutorials on how to build your own router
> (wired) but I can't seem to find anything that covers steps on how to
> build your own wireless router? Anyone have some advice on this topic
> or can share some articles, step-by-step tutorials, links, etc on
> this?
I would think that most people who are interested in hacking their
wireless routers gets a model that supports one of the third-party
firmwares - I bought a TP-Link Archer C5 and installed OpenWRT on it.
This has worked very well for me, but of course I don't know what your
needs are.
OpenWRT has a basic packaging system, not as nice as dpkg/APT, but it
does the job. Going this route will get you hardware that is built for
the job, while still giving you a quite flexible system.
I know that OpenWRT is available for x86, but I've never tried it. Look
around their website[1], there are tons of documentation there. If there
is one place that would have a lot of the information you would need
for building such a system from scratch, I would guess this would be it.
Since OpenWRT uses Free software and is based on Linux, you should be
able to translate a lot of it to a Debian system.
There are also many friendly and helpful people on their forum[2] who
know a *lot* about wifi, I suggest you ask there for advice.
Petter
[1] https://openwrt.org/
[2] https://forum.openwrt.org/
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