EMax wrote: >i would like to have the same thing, openap on a standard linux box. i just >didn't have the time yet to do it myself. if you have any results please let >me know! > >i was also looking into another linux accesspoint which looks promising: >www.sputnik.com it runs off a bootable cdrom and has all the functionality >needed. with a little slim down training it would almost perfect. > >cheers, >stefan > > > Stefan, I have been running the Sputnik distro (stagecoach release) for a while, and it seems to do the job very nicely. Its a combo of the Prism2 HostAP, NoCatAuth, bootable linux distro (what looks like the LinuxCare Toolbox), and other goodies all packed into a bootable CD. My node runs on an old Micron Millenia Transport laptop (133MHz Pentium, 32MB RAM), with a DLink Wi-Fi card, a NetGear 10/100 Ethernet card, talking to my DHCP network.
You can grab the iso from their site and give it a spin. Sameer -- Sameer Verma Asst. Prof. of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
