I run an Alfa AWUS036NH when requiring a high powered wireless card, works well under debian. Realtek driver iirc. I haven't run it as an ap but assume it would work. http://www.alfa.com.tw/products_show.php?pc=34&ps=21 D Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Allan Duncan <amd2345@fastmail.com.au> wrote:
If you have a gigE port you could also use a router such as the Linksys E3200 (and friends) in AP mode. Dual band concurrent, 3 aerials per band (a big advantage over sticks). Runout price $89 at PCDIY - claimed to be "in stock".
Thanks. I'm actually hoping to avoid an extra device/power supply, though that might be inevitable. There isn't much room on the desks here anymore. I'm also looking for something with a command line interface so I don't have to deal with Web interfaces for consumer-grade devices, i.e., bad when you want to administer them remotely, usually not wonderful accessibility and painful to use in general, in my experience.
Getting a router and flashing OpenWRT onto it would be another possibility. However, the desktop machine is handling all of my networking - ADSL, DNS, DHCP, mail, SIP, etc. I haven't looked hard yet, but my quick searches didn't identify any device with enough memory and CPU for all of these functions that offered a small form factor and lower power (with a PCI slot for the ADSL card and another slot for wireless). Such a device would be tempting, of course, as I could then move all the networking out of my primary workstation.
A friend is in a similar position (though with cable and ADSL), and thinking that a small form-factor system capable of running a typical Linux distribution would be better than OpenWRT on consumer-grade hardware. Apparently, you can't upgrade OpenWRT in place from one release to another - you have to re-install, at least on some routers. That's annoying, to say the least.
If anyone reading this has any ideas, suggestions are of course welcome.
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