MaddawgTL Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Sometime ago Darren talked about building your own wireless access point using a linux distro, could someone please tell me what it was? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitwon Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Are you asking which episode it was or which distro he used? You can use pretty much any distribution to build a wireless access point, most of the tools needed are standard parts of EVERY distro, and the rest are almost always available in the official repository. Many home access points and routers are already running a Linux distribution, such as OpenWRT or a derivative, internally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Cooper Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Using hostapd you can turn any linux distro into an access point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebkinne Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Using hostapd you can turn any linux distro into an access point. Correct. As long as the wifi card supports it ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justapeon Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 It is a little out of date, but CoovaAP, loads right on certain linksys routers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdub Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 DDWRT has an x86 version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NegativeSpace Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Wasn't it Untangle? Or maybe Smoothwall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Sorry, didn't see the episode. But airbase-ng is what I've been using lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justapeon Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 (edited) DDWRT has an x86 version. To me, the openwrt x86 version works better than the ddwrt x86 version on x86. To each, his or her own. Would love to see a x86 version of the pineapple. Edited May 14, 2012 by justapeon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitwon Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Would love to see a x86 version of the pineapple. So make one. It should be trivial to port to x86, it's probably all scripts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdub Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 To me, the openwrt x86 version works better than the ddwrt x86 version on x86. To each, his or her own. Would love to see a x86 version of the pineapple. I used ddwrt-x86 on a virtual machine project a while back. I was trying to simulate a network for a new POS system I was installing for a restaurant I do work for. I wanted to try out different software in VM's with there own router. It worked OK. It was far from perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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