Hi, Quoting Steve Skoronski (skoronskiat_private): > Has anyone seen software to emulate this on a PC/Laptop with a wi-fi > card? Or should I go look for a used AP? I have been thinking about that, seeing the high density of (non-WEP) wireless traffic at HAL2001 :) I have tried stuff like you're describing by putting my WiFi card in 'Master' mode, setting the essid to the network's essid. I haven't gotten really far with this, also due to beer and other fun things, but afaik it should work. From the 'iwconfig' manpage, the section about 'mode': |Set the operating mode of the device, which depends |on the network topology. The mode can be Ad-hoc |(network composed of only one cell and without |Access Point), Managed (network composed of many |cells, with roaming or with an Access Point), Mas |ter (the node is the synchronisation master or act |as an Access Point), Repeater (the node forward |packets on the air), Secondary (the node act as a |backup master/repeater) or Auto. So 'iwconfig eth0 essid "HAL"' and 'iwconfig eth0 mode Master' should do the trick (probably the other way around). Greets, Robert -- Linux Generation encrypted mail preferred. finger rvdmat_private for my GnuPG/PGP key. "Cleveland? Yes, I spent a week there one day." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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