On Thursday 23 December 2004 05:45, Bruce Park wrote: > > At Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:03:30 +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > >>On Friday 17 December 2004 15:10, Bruce Park wrote: > >>>Hey guys, > >>> > >>>Is there anyway to use Debian as an access point? > >> > >>Yes, it's certainly possible. Get a card which supports the hostap > >>driver. I have some notes which you may be able to use. > >><http://www.sentinel.dk/cookbook/?Wireless_cards_%2F_access_points> > >> > >>Don't mind the first half of the recipe where I absolutely feel > >> like using the hostap driver for the non-AP nodes. Today I simply > >> use the orinoco driver for new nodes since this works > >> out-of-the-box with the Sarge installer, anyway. > >> > >>Best regards, > >>-- > > I would like to use my router (Linux machine) to act as an AP. It > looks like this can be done according to the link above. > > Now, can anyone recommend a card that will work in Linux?
I'm using a Netgear MA311 802.11b wireless adapter as AP. > Furthermore, the link only shows WEP encryption. I want to be able to > do WPA. Is this possible using a Debian machine? Don't know about WPA, but you should probably use some sort of VPN solution for your WLAN, anyways. I use OpenVPN for various reasons. -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Frederik+Dannemare http://frederik.dannemare.net | http://www.linuxworlddomination.dk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]