How can I set up Porteus as a fully wireless router?
Posted: 06 Nov 2015, 19:42
I've just booked a summer holiday to a place which allows one party a single wireless connection and this is not going to keep my kids happy. I can set up an Android device to share its bluetooth connection but its range is limited (and my device consumes power quicker than I can charge it).
I was hoping I could turn my laptop into some sort of router. It has a built-in NIC (bcm4314 type) and I have a spare USB NIC (zd1211rw). I have a small issue with the built in NIC in that it does not see my router on channel 13 (legal in the UK) but at least the Zyxel device does. I know zd1211rw supports master/AP mode but I am not sure about the bcm device.
Currently I've configured the zd device effectively as WAN, but if I can get the bcm device to see channel 13 I'd like to switch that round.
Questions:
1 - How can I get the bcm device to see channel 13?
2 - How can I set one as the NICs in Master/AP mode as a DHCP server routing through to the other NIC as gateway?
3 - Am I being over-ambitious or using the wrong distro (which must be able to run from USB live)
I have quite a lot of experience with ClearOS which is an RHEL based distro which works as a gateway so I am not a Linux newbe.
TIA,
Nick
I was hoping I could turn my laptop into some sort of router. It has a built-in NIC (bcm4314 type) and I have a spare USB NIC (zd1211rw). I have a small issue with the built in NIC in that it does not see my router on channel 13 (legal in the UK) but at least the Zyxel device does. I know zd1211rw supports master/AP mode but I am not sure about the bcm device.
Currently I've configured the zd device effectively as WAN, but if I can get the bcm device to see channel 13 I'd like to switch that round.
Questions:
1 - How can I get the bcm device to see channel 13?
2 - How can I set one as the NICs in Master/AP mode as a DHCP server routing through to the other NIC as gateway?
3 - Am I being over-ambitious or using the wrong distro (which must be able to run from USB live)
I have quite a lot of experience with ClearOS which is an RHEL based distro which works as a gateway so I am not a Linux newbe.
TIA,
Nick