Feature changed by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #312810, revision 4 Title: Build a wireless lan access point - Hackweek VII: New + Hackweek VII: Implementation Priority - Requester: Desirable + Requester: Important Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Use hostap mode to turn a laptop into a full featured access point. (not just ad-hoc). Find out which hardware is suitable. I have an USB- Wlan-dongle with rt73 chipset, whichis reported to support AP-mode. + Discussion: + #1: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) (2011-09-30 18:28:30) + See + http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/opensuse/trunk/tools/wlan_webcam/ + wlan_webcam.pl is a perl script wrapper featuring - gain control over + the machines networks - check for a logitech webcam, (nonfatal if none) + - select a suitable wlan adapter (currently rt73usb only) - find an + unused wlan channel, or the one with the weakest signal - start hostapd + to create a master mode (infrasstructure) network - start dnsmasq to + serve dhcp clients, and resolve all dns queries to point locally. - use + nat to redirect 80, 88, 8000, 8080, 8888 to the port of the webcam + server - start mjpeg_streamer with the logitech webcam. voila. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312810