Hi list,
i currently live in an appartment that has a very lousy
wlan-access-point for the people. There is an AP with dd-wrt and
WPA2-PSK... currently i only have wlan at the window in the kitchen and
my gentoo-pc which stands about 5m away from that does not even see the
ap while scanning.
As i also have a gentoo netbook, i thought about using this one as a
kind of repeater for the wlan.
Both have ath5k-cards, on the netbook i use wicd (as it changes the
networks more often...) on the PC i hardcoded the access-data in
wpa_supplicant.conf (as the ath5k is kind of "interim-solution" until
our house is built and i will have real wired network there)
Has anyone allready set up something like that? Which settings are
necessary, is the ath5k able to be used as repeater (as it has to be
client and ap at once...)?
The alternatives are a old Fritzbox 7140, a Netgear router and 2
Fonera-Boxes (which all are packed in boxes and wait until the house is
ready).
So i really would prefer the solution with using the gentoo-netbook
instead of the routers...
Regards,
Jens
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