AW: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint

["Peter Pan" <osaka@gmx.net>]

Hi, 

you might want to have a look here for choosing the hardware:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers an in column "AP" set it to yes.
Once you have the driver, you can search for compatible hardware.

Usually, Atheros-chips should be a good way to go, although there are
different versions of them (and some of them wont go to AP-mode).

I tried to accomplish the same with several USB-devices and hostap. I
managed getting up an Software-802.11n access-point, but the throughput was
kinda bad so I got back to the WLAN provided by the DSL-Router.

Hope this helps at least a bit. 
Regards,
Ralf

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Von: Tamer Higazi [mailto:th982a@googlemail.com] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012 19:19
An: gentoo-user
Betreff: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint

Hi people!
I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other
components like Notebook, Cell phone etc...


Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?!

like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the linux machine to
act as a wlan router who offers WPA2 encrpytion.


for any response I would thank you.



Tamer