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Set up a regular access point.

Install a web server like NoCat.

Subsitute the NoCat splash page with a copy of the T-Mobile (or whatever) login page. You can use wget to grab this.

From there you use a plain old cgi script to pipe the userID, password, credit card number, etc. into a text file.

But don't use WEP. It's fairly easy to crack.

See How To Crack WEP Encrypted Wireless Networks

Unfortunately WEP is broken and easily cracked. This guy told me how to crack WEP.

Don't know how much of a Linux user you are but I built a couple of wireless access points/relays for my neighbors that hook up the to the sflan network.

I used a couple of old junker laptops running Linux. This should be completely scalable to your situation. Here's a link to how I did it. For a relay/access point the same principle applies, just use two cards, one with a directional antenna the links to you, the other with an omnidirectional that serves DHCP. I found that cheapo cards on old hardware works great.

There are plenty of sites that have intructions for building directional antennas. From my experience you don't need to spend a lot of money for this kind of thing.

I'm glad your sharing your bandwidth. More people need to do this. Hopefully, one day the Internet will be entirely wireless and free. Free meaning you don't have to pay an ISP, you just buy your equipment and you're online. Just like CB radio.

Feel free to use my email address at the above site if you have any questions.

Check out:

man growisofs

or go to.

If you're new to the command line try this tutorial

Good luck.

Why buy when you can hack for free ....

wireless

Why have a garage door opener, a remote TV controller, and a handheld computer. The computer can do all the others can and more. Why not not add a phone, multimedia player, wireless Internet, camera, GPS, .....

A couple of years ago I installed Linux on an Ipaq. screen shots.

It had 2 PCMCIA slots, one held a 5G HD, the other a wireless network card. It also had a fold-able keyboard. I really wanted to turn it into a phone, but though there's an adapter, there's no Linux drivers. And the phone companies don't like to give you their specs.

I usually live on the command line so MGz and RAM are not important to me. The only problem I had was the screen size. If only it had a "roll-out" screen!

My only criticism is that many of these devices seem designed more for fashion than functionality.