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On 7 Nov 2009, at 05:21, Mike Mazur wrote: |
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> I'm trying to set up my laptop to be a wireless access point. It has |
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> an iwl3945 card. I followed the "Atheros Ath5k Wireless Access Point" |
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> article on gentoo-wiki.com[1] before realizing that it was Atheros |
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> specific. |
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Gentoo-wiki is a mess. :( |
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If only the people who wrote their separate articles about building |
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APs with madwifi [1] and ath5k [2] had thought to improve and |
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contribute to the pre-existing "wireless access point" article: |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wireless/Access_point |
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That explains very clearly (as has Florian) that the hardware needs to |
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support "master mode" and also why. The explanation of setting up the |
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iptables / bridging / dhcpd / &c should not need to be repeated on |
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multiple pages. |
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I started that page originally, but this was perhaps as much as 5 |
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years ago. At that time it documented how to produce a basic |
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installation with simple explanations in order to make it "easy" for |
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someone who was even just a little command-line literate. It has |
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actually changed remarkably little in some respects, but I doubt it is |
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any longer consistent or fully accurate. It actually claims that the |
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ipw3945 does do master mode - I assume this is a different driver for |
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your card? - but Googling leaves me dubious; I see the claim repeated |
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other places without the poster actually appearing to succeed. |
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Stroller. |
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[1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Madwifi_Wireless_Access_Point |
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[2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Atheros_Ath5k_Wireless_Access_Point |
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