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| From: | Michael Mathurin <angelfly91@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint | ||
| Date: | Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:15:41 | ||
| Message-Id: | 8762grqo7l.fsf@gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint by Tamer Higazi |
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| 1 | Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> writes: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Hi people! |
| 4 | > I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other |
| 5 | > components like Notebook, Cell phone etc... |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?! |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | > like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the linux |
| 11 | > machine to act as a wlan router who offers WPA2 encrpytion. |
| 12 | > |
| 13 | > |
| 14 | > for any response I would thank you. |
| 15 | > |
| 16 | > |
| 17 | > |
| 18 | > Tamer |
| 19 | > |
| 20 | |
| 21 | http://sylv1.tuxfamily.org/projects/tutorial-wpa2-access-point.html |
| 22 | |
| 23 | That should get you started. Configuring hostapd and dhcp are the main |
| 24 | things you need to do as well as having a card that supports master |
| 25 | mode. Hope that helps. |
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| 28 | t: https://www.twitter.com/mikankun |
| 29 | b: http://mikankun.wordpress.com |