Hi
after trying several pci and usb network cards none were able to have their ssid broadcasted. The question that i have is:
Can a suse box be converted to act as an acces point without the use of atheros based hardware, without switching over to ubuntu and or debian, without the use of openwrt?
I am adding the keywords debian , ubuntu openwrt to this question because google looooves these keywords and they are quite irrelevant to my question
Hi
Have you seen this?
http://forums.opensuse.org/get-help-here/wireless/410475-how-setup-access-point.html
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As you did not say which wireless devices you tried, I cannot say that
any of yours will work; however, many of the wireless drivers that use
mac80211 will work in AP mode.
Be aware that the article quoted above is bare bones and that you will
need to add a firewall - a concept that was skipped to be brief.
i have tried amongst others ralink based chipset cards, sagem, netgear. Not even after installing wifi-compat none of them worked. atheros based wifi cards are not sold to my knowledge in the netherlands. So i am attempting to bypass this requirement.
My funds alloted to this project are running out. Meaning i am not inclined to by every available wifi card usb stick hoping one of them might work.
I did read How to setup an Access Point - openSUSE Forums
I concluded that several flavors of nic’s do not work with the hostapd driver only atheros based devices work
My question remains am i wrong or not?
On 06/05/2010 03:06 PM, peterthesing wrote:
> My question remains am i wrong or not?
You are wrong. Many devices work with hostapd and mac80211. Some do not.
What devices have you tried using the prescription in the forum entry?