[plug] Wireless Access Point Options

[Michael Holland]

Bills suggestion of dd-wrt makes more sense, but if you really want to 
roll your own WAP, you might take the wifi card from your old router and 
put it in one of these:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.9307

Michael Holland wrote:
> 
> Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
>> Is it as simple as getting any PCI Wireless card, or is the external
>> WAP the better solution? Any other ideas/suggestions?
> 
> Not just any card. You need one that has Linux drivers supporting Master 
> mode. And of course the external WAP is a lot easier, and still cheap. 
> Just get a new one, and disable the built-in DHCP.
> 
> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=linux++wireless+access+point+master-mode 
> 
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