Building a wireless ap that uses WPA
 

Can someone please point me to some good sources that include both the building of one, and compatible cards?


edit: I'm also thinking of using and box as a firewall and forward it's packets to a wrt54gl router. The wrt54gl would then become an access point. Any advice on how to do that would be greatly appreciated.

Have you looked at any of the Linux firmware for the WRT-54GL ? OpenWRT DD-WRT, etc... ?
Source should all be available, that would be a good place to start.

that firmware also has firewall capabilities in it.. I don't think I would bother trying to turn a PC into a WAP if you already have a WRT-54GL

I have the wrt54gl now and now about the alternate firmwares for it. It's a little underpowered and for the programs I want to run and does not have enough space for the verbose logs I want to keep. I'm planning to give it a few chores and use a box for more resource intensive chores.

I was looking into turning the box into a WAP, but it was hell trying to find information on how to setup one with WPA. That's why I posted here. Now I'll just let the wrt54gl handle the WAP WPA function.

unless...
someone can point to a specific resource on how to setup a WPA WAP.

found one
 

Have a look at http://locustworld.com/ may be a little overkill but they have a live cd if you want to give it ago.

Sav