From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ROQ5s-0005pZ-7x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:34:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D094221C0CC; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.pokoeln.de (ns1.pokoeln.de [80.239.207.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC2521C096 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pokoeln.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30AD5800A9 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:33:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.pokoeln.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.pokoeln.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NyGE_esyDLZJ for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:33:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (p5099d6ba.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [80.153.214.186]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jens@reinemuth.info) by mail.pokoeln.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E74B0580090 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:33:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4EBB8C4E.1010308@reinemuth.info> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:33:18 +0100 From: Jens Reinemuth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111031 Thunderbird/7.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] gentoo as wlan-repeater... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 880883b0-5c3e-415e-896b-74caae3f957f X-Archives-Hash: c9dae825f5080331d83b8a72ca5b9b44 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