[Wylug-help] Wireless networking and Linux

[Dan Walker]

I was doing some research on this for a putative project for my brother, which 
we never put into action, but what you appear to need is a wireless router in 
'client mode'. 

AFAICT the cheapest way of doing this is to get a Linksys WRT54g or other 
openwrt-compatible [1] router and use the client mode that the openwrt 
firmware enables.

There appear to be some commercially-supported third-party firmwares avaliable 
from Sveasoft [2] which apparently will do the job from a web interface.

A Client Mode how to can be found at: 
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000690043237/

I have never actually tried to implement any of this, mind.

Hope that helps,

Dan

[1]  http://openwrt.org/
[2] http://www.sveasoft.com/content/view/3/1/


On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 13:59, Stephen Patterson wrote:
> On 27 Sep 05, Dave Brotherstone (davebrotherstone at gmail.com) wrote:
> > So, either I move the cable modem and wireless point downstairs (as
> > there's a cable point in the right room), and get some sort of wireless
> > card for my linux box, or, I get a further access point downstairs, and
> > link the two access points.
> >
> > So, my question is - can anyone recommend a wireless card, internal or
> > external, that works well with linux, or is it possible to "link" two
> > wireless routers over a wireless connection? I've not seen that done
> > before, but "feel" it must be possible ;-)
>
> You should be able to link 2 wireless routers wirelessly. If you use the
> cat5 lan ports on the router rather than using the external cat5 ports then
> they'll all be on the same IP range.