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Open Source Hotspots

Posted by michael on from the freebie dept.

darthcamaro writes "Not that long ago it was a serious pain to get an 802.11b card to work on a Linux machine. [ed note: We love you Jean Tourrilhes!] Wi-Fi Planet has a story where they do an overview of a wad of open source Wi-Fi projects. Did you realize that you don't even need to spend the dough for an Access Point? - standard Linux routing is enough to create your own access point, with a few other tools like Public IP's Zone CD or the Less Networks Hotspot server, you can freely create a hotspot and manage it all in minutes. I guess all this means that both Wi-Fi and open source are literally 'everywhere'."

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  1. Re:Its like.... magic hardware. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    real simple... if you pull you head out of your ass long enough to realize that you use a $19.00 Wifi card and a FREE junk computer (P133 or less) you get a wifi hotspot that does thing that you CAN NOT DO with a $90.00 AP.

    please show me ONE AP that will allow anyone to connect but redirects them to a launch page first no matter what URL they type in the browser...

    oh wait... THERE ARE NONE..

    how you got modded anything but a -6 asshole I'll never know.