Anthony - have you looked at using wifidog for this? With openwrt it makes a really low cost hotspot.
We're still working out some stability issues, but it runs on all of our 9 hotspots now (the X's indicate hotspots that haven't been deployed yet). http://www.ilesansfil.org/wiki/WiFiDog This is the the central auth server: http://auth2.ilesansfil.org/ (as you can see under "list network nodes", it gives you the ability to give a captive portal to each hotspot seperately. And if you don't want people to have to log in, we hacked another version of the auth server that doesn't require username/password. mike --- Anthony Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all - i have a couple of students who are > building interesting captive > portal projects at NYU's Interactive > Telecommunications Project. > > to keep development costs down, i thought i'd reach > out to see if anybody on > the list has old PCs or wireless APs that we can use > for these projects. > > pretty much anything 486/Pentium and 802.11b will do > > > thanks in advance. if have anything to donate, > please bring it to the > meeting tonight > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: > http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/