making a 802.11n access point out of a laptop?

emaayan · 05-11-2009, 03:20 PM

hi..,

i have centos 5.1 serving as router, and i'm wondering if could also make it a wi-fi access point, to consolidate my devices. i have no idea how it could be done, nor do i know of any good n cards with support to 802.11n and centos

anyone can help?

TB0ne · 05-11-2009, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by emaayan

hi..,

i have centos 5.1 serving as router, and i'm wondering if could also make it a wi-fi access point, to consolidate my devices. i have no idea how it could be done, nor do i know of any good n cards with support to 802.11n and centos

anyone can help?

Sure can....lots of docs on the net, this should get you started:

http://www.linux.com/articles/55617

Hostapd (http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostapd/), can be used, to provide the access point stuff.

emaayan · 05-11-2009, 11:25 PM

all my devices are setup as wep and i don't want to mess around with it too much..

also i was thinking about buying netgear wn711, is it compatible with centos?

farslayer · 05-12-2009, 08:19 AM

FSF has a list of cards on their sute that work with free drivers..

http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html

Theres a whole list of n Cards that use the atheros 9k driver there. and yes that Netgear wn711 expresscard is listed.. I couldn't tell you if it will work with Centos out of hte box, Centos typiclaly has Older kernels due to being a server OS, and the older the kernel the less likely the wireless card will work without you compiling the driver manually.

emaayan · 05-12-2009, 12:30 PM

but each yum command gives me this, could this be an iptables issue?

[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras