Linux wireless router (doable?)

[Dennis Ruzeski]

This is correct- You'll need a card with a prism chipset + you need to
load the hostap driver (for whatever reason, most linux systems will
try to load the much less versatile orinoco driver for this chipset). 
After that it's a breeze.

--Dennis



On 8/12/05, vlok stone <vlokstone at yahoo.com> wrote:
> yes, but you need a card w/ a certain chipset. the
> prism 2.5 chipset will work as an access point. i
> think there are a couple others that'll work too, but
> i don't know them off hand.
> 
> --- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > OK, this one should be simple but searching the net
> > gives me pages with tons of
> > information and no real answer.
> >
> > Can I make a linux box into a wireless router?  The
> > situation is this:  I know
> > someone with a linux box that just got a Powerlink
> > connection.  He wants to
> > stuff a wireless card in the linux box and use
> > IPTABLES to make the linux box
> > into a firewall for wireless.  The real question is
> > whether or not a wireless
> > card in a linux box can be made to look like a
> > wireless hub.  I haven't worked
> > that much with wireless to know what can be done.
> > If I can get the card to be
> > the other end of the connection, then getting DHCP,
> > IPTABLES and other things
> > running should be a snap.
> >
> > Please don't tell me how cheap a WRT54G is.  I know
> > already but the person that
> > wants to do this doesn't want an external router.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Bob
> >
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