I have a need to create a wireless access point. I would like to have a machine running openSUSE connected to the wired network and have it allow connections to the internet via WPA2-PSK [AES] on a wireless USB adapter attached to it. That machine in turn would be connected to a router it receives it’s own IP address from in the local LAN. Is is possible to easily do this? I have all the hardware to do this.
I recently purchased a new b/g/n router and it can only do repeating with WEP and I do not chose to use that wireless method. However I need a repeater to cover my whole house. Part of the house is a good Faraday cage necessitating a repeater. This is so my Wife’s WiFi connection is available for domestic tranquility reasons.
On 03/01/2012 03:56 PM, FlameBait wrote:
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> I have a need to create a wireless access point. I would like to have a
> machine running openSUSE connected to the wired network and have it
> allow connections to the internet via WPA2-PSK [AES] on a wireless USB
> adapter attached to it. That machine in turn would be connected to a
> router it receives it’s own IP address from in the local LAN. Is is
> possible to easily do this? I have all the hardware to do this.
>
> I recently purchased a new b/g/n router and it can only do repeating
> with WEP and I do not chose to use that wireless method. However I need
> a repeater to cover my whole house. Part of the house is a good Faraday
> cage necessitating a repeater. This is so my Wife’s WiFi connection is
> available for domestic tranquility reasons.
The answer is “it depends”. Not all wireless drivers support AP mode, and you
carefully avoided saying what device you want to use.
If your device does support AP mode, you will even find an article of two on the
Forums, if you search.
I hate the thought of using a repeater as it cuts the network speed in half.
There are a number of USB devices with booster antennas that can connect to a
weak signal. Would one of them work for you?
This is for access by hand held devices. I don’t want to make a repeater I want to make an access point. The one computer that is present there gets a good enough signal to function and 68Mbt wirelessly (I hate that machine but it’s not mine). The hand held devices get none to a very poor signal.
It will be a 2.1 Ghz Athlon with four gigs of memory and a wired connection to the router and a Zonet ZEW2500P 802.11 g USB wireless adapter on the access point side.
The new router I have only supports repeating in WEP mode. I want to use WPA2-PSK [AES] this necessitates creatng some kind of access point for these hand held devices that is separate from the 802.11 n WIFi access point.
Can you suggest a actual search term twfinger since I fail at searches
On 03/01/2012 04:56 PM, FlameBait wrote:
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> This is for access by hand held devices. I don’t want to make a
> repeater I want to make an access point. The one computer that is
> present there gets a good enough signal to function and 68Mbt wirelessly
> (I hate that machine but it’s not mine). The hand held devices get none
> to a very poor signal.
>
> It will be a 2.1 Ghz Athlon with four gigs of memory and a wired
> connection to the router and a Zonet ZEW2500P 802.11 g USB wireless
> adapter on the access point side.
>
> The new router I have only supports repeating in WEP mode. I want to
> use WPA2-PSK [AES] this necessitates creatng some kind of access point
> for these hand held devices that is separate from the 802.11 n WIFi
> access point.
>
> Can you suggest a actual search term twfinger since I fail at searches
I know you don’t want to make a repeater. I understood that point. All the
handheld devices I know about can work on the same wifi network as computers.
Why is yours different?
We still need to know what kind of device you have. Vendor names/models are
useless for this as some of them change the internal chip without changing the
model. What is needed is the output of ‘lsusb’.
Searching the Techinical forum for “how to set up an access point” returns “Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.”
And searching ALL for this “The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search:
“410475-how-setup-access-point.html”” That was my exact search string. 410475-how-setup-access-point.html.
When I get a good bit of sleep I’ll consider what the best OS configuration to run as 12.1 is using systemd. I may want to run 11.4. I’d like to have this start at boot and shut down when the power button is hit. The box will run headless and I’ll set it up so I can SSH into the machine. At some point I’ll ad in a SATA card and let it serve some of the files I am having to host on my desktop machine now.
On 03/02/2012 03:46 AM, FlameBait wrote:
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> Replying to myself here I found the post via Google search.
> The url is http://tinyurl.com/7f3r3ud
>
> When I get a good bit of sleep I’ll consider what the best OS
> configuration to run as 12.1 is using systemd. I may want to run 11.4.
> I’d like to have this start at boot and shut down when the power button
> is hit. The box will run headless and I’ll set it up so I can SSH into
> the machine. At some point I’ll ad in a SATA card and let it serve some
> of the files I am having to host on my desktop machine now.
For most people, systemd works perfectly. For those that is does not, it is an
easy switch to restore SystemV. As to the headless operation, 12.1 and 11.4 will
require the same configuration.
Your problem with the link that I sent is that the Forum requires a login before
it will go to the link. What I have to do from NNTP is to hit the link, log in,
close that browser window, and then hit the link again. It is a PITA, but I have
learned to live with it.
