[oclug] Distro sugegstion for a 16M RAM 800 MB HD Wifi bridge

[Brian Barber]

I found this article, which is linked to from www.linux.com:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-wap.html?ca=dgr-lnxw03AccessPoint

It has a section on creating wireless bridges.  Oh yes, he's using Pebble
Linux, which is based on Debian.  I would difinitely give Debian another
try.  I've switched all of my machines over, and I'm really pleased.

Keep us posted,
BB

-----Original Message-----
From: "Brian Johnson" <bjohnson at johnson-engineering.ca>
To: oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:31:19 +0000 
Subject: Re: [oclug] Distro sugegstion for a 16M RAM 800 MB HD Wifi bridge

Thanks, I've already done most of what I want to do on different systems

What I haven't done (recently) is install on such a small ram machine

I also haven't done wifi bridging  .. I'm hoping I can find something of a howto
since I think I need to play around with mixtures of managed and adhoc modes



Brian Barber (brianbarber at myrealbox.com) wrote:
>
>I figure you already have docs, but here's an older article that's rather
>well-written:
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/03/06/recipe.html
>
>Cheers,
>BB
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Brian Johnson" <bjohnson at johnson-engineering.ca>
>To: oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
>Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:27:15 +0000
>Subject: [oclug] Distro sugegstion for a 16M RAM 800 MB HD Wifi bridge
>
>I have an old Pentium laptop I'd thought I'd turn into a wifi box
>
>I'd like to use it as a wifi bridge and netstumbler type device for field testing
>antenna ranges
>
>I've looked at MeshAP from locustworld and pebbles from nycwireless but both need
>more RAM (since their made to work from floppy or CD)
>
>In my case, I have the HD to work from (although it isn't large, it should be large
>enough)
>
>I don't need a gui if there are decent montoring apps that don't require it
>
>
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