How to build a wireless access point with gentoo?

alien · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 85

Hi all,
first, sorry for my poor english. :)
I'm using Gentoo. It's a cool distribution.

Now to my problem.
My hardware access point is dead from yesterday :(.
Now I would like to make my pc to an AP.

I have a Netgear MA311 wireless adapter and use it with linux-wlan-ng.

I use a 3com card to get connection to internet (ADSL) and wanna share this ADSL-Connection with a few wireless clients.

Has anybody a small howto? Can anybody help me?
Thanks and Best wishes,

think4urs11 · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 5:51 pm Post subject:

Hi!

AFAIK you need to have a Prism-based card to get it into AP-mode. I'm not exactly sure about the Netgear card.
And you need to install hostap (ebuild avail, but masked).
On the website for hostap you can find some howtos.

HTH
T.
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Rroet · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 9:58 pm Post subject:

emerge ap-utils

there you go a instant wireless accesspoint program. Don't know about your card supported and stuff, have fun

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alien · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 85

thank you peoplez,

I've found some practicable infomation -> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21919&highlight=hostap

puddpunk · l33t Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 681 Location: New Zealand

http://oob.freeshell.org/nzwireless/LWAP-HOWTO.html

Have a look at that. Very thourgh. It's a bit central to New Zealands wireless network, but can be adapted. Very handy