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

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

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On Jan 6, 2012 8:44 PM, "Stroller" <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 4 January 2012, at 18:19, Tamer Higazi wrote:
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> > I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other
> > components like Notebook, Cell phone etc...
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> If you just want to temporarily share then I think "access point" is
unimportant - can't you use "ad hoc" mode?
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> "Access point" means getting a wifi card which supports master mode. Not
all do.
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> I question whether this is worth the bother - routers are just too cheap.
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> If you want to do something complicated, which is not available in the
menus of your $20 wifi router, then run OpenWRT Linux on a $40 router.
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> The extra cost of a recent router will quickly pay for itself in
electricity savings, over leaving your big desktop PC on when you only want
to surf the net on your netbook.
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> Stroller.
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I agree. But I strongly recommend going the OpenWRT route directly.

Proprietary access points, especially the ones supporting WPS, are security
threats :

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/hands-on-hacking-wifi-protected-setup-with-reaver.ars

the WPS protocol has been broken. OpenWRT does not support WPS, so it
doesn't have the WPS vulnerability.

Rgds,

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