Hello,

I am new to the board but I have mild experience running Mandrake, Mandriva (I am European), backtrack and Ubuntu.

I have an EEE 901 PC laying around and not doing much. I would like to turn it into a router so that I can broadcast the university WIFI into my room.

Right now, this is achieved through ICS from an Alfa AWUS036H 1000mW which captures the WIFI signal. The WIFI then bridged with the ethernet of my main computer (Windows 7) which, through wire connection is connected to the Router (Netgear). The router then transmit wirelessly through the room.

I would like to do the same with my eee PC using a very light distro. I achieved it with the latest version of Ubuntu, but Ubuntu nearly takes all the hard drive space (I have the speedy 4GB and the very slwo 16gb eee 901 SSD configuration). Additionally, the Alfa adapter would stop working after a few minutes. I had to restart the PC to make it work. I tried installing the driver from the website but it still does not work.

This is the reason I would like to use a very small distro which would install my Alfa AWUS036H flawlessly, connect to the University with WIFI, share the signal to the ethernet connextion (bridge) and then connect this to the Netgear router.

I do understand that I could use two wifi adapters, the Alfa AWUS036H and the built in Wifi adapter of the eee 901. That would work too, but like the netgear solution better.

Thanks for your advice.
Best to all.
Cheers,
Hydro.

Following link may be a good choice. It is Ubuntu base. The minimum requirements to run Bodhi Linux are only: 300+MHz CPU, 128MB RAM, and 2.5GB hard drive space!
http://bodhilinux.com/

I have a dumb question. Why can't the router be ahead of the computer?

Thanks for the link and keep them coming!

Router ahead of the PC. Yes, that does exist but compatibility is limited. See the alpha Alfa R36 802.11 b/g/N. Now, if I could turn the eee pc into an alfa R36, I would save ~$50.

Cheers to all.
Hydro