OT: What we want are things that work; what we get is technology

[david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org (David Kramer)]

Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 03:50:25PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
>> Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
>>> I ran like that for about a year, before I had a hankering to use MythTV
>>> again and converted the file server back to linux, which necessitated
>>> buying a standalone AP.  (Yes, I know I could massage the MythTV box into
>>> being an AP, but I need my home router to more reliable than my MytvTV
>>> machines have been.)
>> Huh.  I don't know why that didn't occur to me.  My server is already
>> running 24/7, and I could have used firestarter to set up another
>> intranet.  Anyone know what software I would have to use to set up a
>> wireless network card as an access point?
> 
> A DHCP daemon, mostly, and a little routing configuration.

I should have been more explicit.  I meant providing the functionality
like MAC address filtering, WEP,  etc.