Am 26.11.2011 17:44, schrieb Tom Horsley:
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:25:16 +0100
Reindl Harald wrote:
> hi
>
> does anybody know what hardware and configuraion-steps are needed to get
> a fedora-pc working as WLAN access-point with WPA/WPA2
Good luck - you'll need it :-).
thank you :-)
http://linuxwireless.org/ has some tables of devices that have
AP support, but they tend to list things like chipsets, which
are difficult if not impossible to correlate with products
you can buy.
that is exactly my problem
if someone can call a buyable product which is out of the box
supported from current fedora-kernels and supports G/N because
mit printer in the kitchen supports only G with WPA there will
be a way to buy this thing somewhere
I have a little wireless USB dongle I got to sort-of work, but
I have to try plugging it in and initializing the software
two or three times before it actually works. You can find
my saga here:
http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.html maybe the
sub-thing makes here more troubles as usually
but what can i say since i have never installed such a setup
i would generally pefer a pci-card, here a 3 slots free
and the cards with three antennas are looking fine
what i found some minutes ago:
http://old.tuxorials.de/linux-tipps/allgemeingueltig/52-wlan-accesspoint-...
this sounds quite easy and only a good wlan-card is the missing piece
and some iptables-stuff, but iptables is not really difficult for me
One thing I found with the USB dongle was that I had to
disable NetworkManager, or it would try and grab the wlan
interface and set it up as a client.
well, this is not the problem, i never use networkmanager
the machine has two GBE-network-cards
one is the public interface and additionally a vmware-bridge
for two virtual machines and the other one for the local network
a hughe ip-tables-script does routing/masquerading as also route a
permanently active openvpn-connection and my vmware-nat into the LAN,
blocks china and russia, so this machine does all i need perfectly and
that is why i want to replace the "old" hardware-wlan-router with a
8-port-switch lying around here and finally have my whole IT in one box
if there is fire take it and run, sip-phone, keyboard and screen you can
buy everywhere later :-)
speaking about a brand new Core(TM) i7-2600 with 16 GB RAM
and 4x2 TB as RAID10 there should be no need for additional
hardware the next years :-)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 3C:D9:2B:65:95:9F
inet Adresse:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:223032 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:195107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
RX bytes:41146088 (39.2 MiB) TX bytes:70225632 (66.9 MiB)
Interrupt:20 Speicher:fe700000-fe720000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:50:8D:B5:CC:DE
inet Adresse:84.113.45.179 Bcast:84.113.45.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:27454880 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14550464 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
RX bytes:24185678885 (22.5 GiB) TX bytes:3678721888 (3.4 GiB)
Interrupt:16 Speicher:fe6c0000-fe6e0000
lo Link encap:Lokale Schleife
inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8590537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8590537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
RX bytes:7682947490 (7.1 GiB) TX bytes:7682947490 (7.1 GiB)
tap0 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse A2:EB:CE:2F:48:A8
inet Adresse:10.0.0.241 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:707920 errors:0 dropped:19384 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:748660 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:100
RX bytes:242962206 (231.7 MiB) TX bytes:65362520 (62.3 MiB)
vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet Adresse:192.168.196.1 Bcast:192.168.196.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:651835 errors:0 dropped:36 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:582388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge: