
Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> writes:
Now I want to add 802.11 wireless for phones, tablets, etc., both IPv4 and IPv6. Given previous discussions and my research, I'm considering just buying a device that will take OpenWRT, attaching it to the Gigabit switch and either bridging the wired and wireless networks or routing the packets between separate networks.
If you just want <what you have> + 802.11 AP, you can buy an AP-capabable PCIe wifi card, and run hostapd. There's a single git repo that turns into two separate source tarballs -- hostapd and wpa_supplicant. The former is the AP side of things, and IME getting it to run was reasonably straightforward. It's also what OpenWRT uses. I can't recommend any recent wifi cards - I've been using WNDR3700 and 1043ND with OpenWRT instead, for quite a while.