[lug] wireless access point vs wireless router

[Jason Strnad]

The DD-WRT and several of the other 3rd party firmware solutions have  
settings that allow use of the device as an access point.  This will  
open many of the more commonly available wireless AP/router devices  
from Linksys/Buffalo/etc for your intended purpose.

I'm using DD-WRT v24 at the moment on a WRT54G v8 and the option is  
available.


-jason

On 15 Nov 07, at 8:21 PM, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> I've got a EPIA M-10000 I want to use with wireless with Minimyth.   
> I'm
> researching adding the madwifi drivers to that but the build for
> minimyth is failing for reasons I and the minimyth maintainer haven't
> identified (alsa-drivers always fails for me, on any machine I try  
> it on
> - even with different versions of Fedora - but never fails for him -
> even on the same distros).
>
> As a temporary solution I thought about using a wireless access point.
> I can plug the ethernet port of the M10000 into that and have the WAP
> connect to my wireless router.
>
> What I've discovered is that WAPs are rare (I've only found the  
> Linksys
> one locally) and more expensive than routers.  Can a wireless  
> router be
> made to act like a wireless access point?  If so, how do you do that?
> Is this something that DD-WRT provides if I upgrade the firmware?
>
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