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From: Michael Mathurin <angelfly91@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:09:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762grqo7l.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F049824.9060209@googlemail.com> (Tamer Higazi's message of "Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:19:16 +0100")

Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com> writes:

> 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
>

http://sylv1.tuxfamily.org/projects/tutorial-wpa2-access-point.html

That should get you started. Configuring hostapd and dhcp are the main
things you need to do as well as having a card that supports master
mode. Hope that helps.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-04 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-04 18:19 [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint Tamer Higazi
2012-01-04 18:42 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-04 19:09 ` Michael Mathurin [this message]
2012-01-04 19:15 ` AW: " Peter Pan
2012-01-06 13:41 ` Stroller
2012-01-06 15:43   ` Pandu Poluan

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