Linux as a wireless AP

[Stephen]

I found a walk through on how to do just this with Slackware on
linuxquestions.org



On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:
> From: Paul Mooring <drpppr242 at gmail.com>
>> I can get the card to work as a wireless NIC, by that I mean I can
>> connect to my existing network, what I haven't been able to get working
>> is configuring to work as an AP, setting an essid, configuring WPA, ect.
>
> iwconfig eth1 mode Master
> (If that doesn't work, things will be difficult if not impossible.
> Some cards can't act as a master, like the ipw2200 in my laptop.)
> iwconfig eth1 essid "My_ESSID"
>
> ...your distro probably has layers and layers of scripts that read
> config files that have pointy-clicky ways to update that info.  But
> most of the 802.11 configuration is done via iwconfig at some point.
> *NOT* WPA encryption, though, that's wpa_supplicant.
>
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