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From: John K. Herreshoff on 22 Apr 2010 07:43
Danno wrote:

> John K. Herreshoff wrote:
>
>> Is there a quick way to make a wireless access node in slackware?
>>
>> John.
>
> Compile hostapd, edit the config, and fire it up.
> http://w1.fi/hostapd/
>
> I use a very basic setup, so am not a good source of details, but the
> source has excellent documentation IIRC. Make sure your card is supported.
>
>

Thanks, Danno. I'll give that a look.

John.

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From: Jim Diamond on 22 Apr 2010 09:33
On 2010-04-21 at 23:47 ADT, Stephen Bloom <sbloom(a)beauty.toad.net> wrote:
> John K. Herreshoff <nope(a)not.here> wrote:

>> Thanks, Steve. I guess I used the wrong word: I want to make an access
>> point so that I can connect other wireless computers to my network. I'm
>> using wicd here right now for this machine.

> I'm using a Linksys (aka Cisco) wireless router. Configuring it was
> a pain in the neck -- I had to boot into an old WinXP partition to
> run the setup routines; I don't know how to do the setups in linux
> (which seems to be your question..). Once the damn thing was up and
> running, I could make changes via the router's web interface, I just
> couldn't figure out how to get to that point from the beginning
> without using the setup routines.

I feel your pain in having to boot into lose ex-pee (I'm using
software to prepare my tax return, and guess what excuse for an OS I
have to use...). But you really shouldn't fall into the M$ marketing
trap of associating the concept of "winning" with any of their
products, because that's obviously wrong.

Moving along...

I'm a bit surprised you needed to boot into ex-pee. I just replaced
an old Linksys router (WRT54GS) with a new one (WRT610N), and owned a
D-Link DIR-825 for a couple of days(*) as well. Both of the new routers
came with some instructions warning me to use the install disk first,
but in fact both were easy enough to set up from square one with the
browser interface.

(*) Can you say "slow" when you are using both G and N? I expect its
speed in that mode could be beaten by IP over pigeon (see
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html for details). I would have
tested it, but I didn't want pigeon droppings in my house.

Cheers.
Jim
From: Stephen Bloom on 21 Apr 2010 07:59
John K. Herreshoff <nope(a)not.here> wrote:
> Is there a quick way to make a wireless access node in slackware?

> John.
> --
> Using the Laptop at home.

Install and use the wicd package found in /extra. I've
had very good luck with this (using Slack 13 and -current)
on my laptop.


Steve
From: John K. Herreshoff on 21 Apr 2010 08:38
Stephen Bloom wrote:

> John K. Herreshoff <nope(a)not.here> wrote:
>> Is there a quick way to make a wireless access node in slackware?
>
>> John.
>> --
>> Using the Laptop at home.
>
> Install and use the wicd package found in /extra. I've
> had very good luck with this (using Slack 13 and -current)
> on my laptop.
>
>
> Steve

Thanks, Steve. I guess I used the wrong word: I want to make an access
point so that I can connect other wireless computers to my network. I'm
using wicd here right now for this machine.

John.

--
Using the Laptop at home.
From: Thomas Overgaard on 21 Apr 2010 14:54

John K. Herreshoff wrote :

> I want to make an access point so that I can connect other wireless
> computers to my network.

From my own bad experience. Before you starts wasting your time make
sure that wifi-card supports Master mode.
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Thomas O.

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