Turning a normal wireless Card into an access point

[redhead]

Hi all,

I know it is not normal for me, to be asking questions, but for this specific thing I realy need to dwell on your knowledge.

I have a linux box acting as router/firewall etc. It has an unused wireless card, which I would like to turn into an access point, so I won't have to invest in a dedicated access point.
I have been searching almost everywhere google wants to lead me, but I've come up short on this.

So to sum it all up, does anyone here know anything about how to turn your wireless network card into an access point, under linux ?

Theoreticaly the datatransfer is the same, but there should be some way, to reverse the transmission, so the card will accept other computers to gain access through the card, instead of it searching for an access point.

I've found this: http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html
Aswell as this: http://freebsd.active-venture.com/ha...-wireless.html
And I am studying those, but if anyone is having any other information, I would realy like to know.

[cheawick]

Actually I run that on my linux connections. The hard part is getting all the tables to line up. I don't know linux very well, but I'll help if I can. What version and source of linux are you running?

[cheawick]

Hey, bad news. I tried booting up my linux box, but I think my hard drive has died. The CMOS is wacked also, so perhaps this computer got hit by that storm over a month ago also. I'll keep trying though.
The main things I remember is (at least for Redhat Psyche) that you ran (I think the ssid) in linux and not ad-hoc. Then you hunt down the tables for the firewall and make sure that your addys all match, I assume this is the same as mac addresses...

[Kernel_Killer]

Redhead, check your wicontrol, (or whatever your distro uses) and set to BSS mode. Set the SSID, Channel, and any other options you want. From there you can act as if it was hard wired.

[redhead]

Great info, it kind of gives me the same idear, as the two articles I've posted.
Once I get it working I know how to set the route/firewall to accept an dmasq connections from WIFI. It was just the BSS enabling I was missing.

[Kernel_Killer]

Do an internal VPN between both points. Keep those wardrivers out.

[redhead]

I was thinking in the lines of a ssh tunnel, for everything I normaly use..

[teknomage1]

Genius I've been trying to do this myself, but with trying to graduate from school I haven't really had a chance to do the proper research. Thanks guys.