Surprisingly Windows is giving different information: This is really good news as it seems Atheros is one of the best supported adapters on Linux the people from The MadWifi project are doing excellent work. ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70) AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)Ġ3:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0) For mine, lspci and dmesg are giving this:Ġ1:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. If you are thinking of buying one, check in advance what is actually in it. All models I checked are with different adapter from Atheros but I cannot give warranty for all. From what I found Acer had been changing the adapter in nearly all models. Since then Acer produced many new models, but the only thing that is important is which wireless adapter model is installed in it. My Acer Aspire One has a Model KAV10, which is one of Acer’s first over 3 year old models. I chose Slackware because I love it I can’t put it in better words then it is in “ Ten reasons for giving Slackware Linux a go” By Jack Wallen. There are no requirements or specific instructions to a certain Linux collection in this configuration. The other solution OpenWrt had two disadvantages My router is too weak to support OpenWrt and any router that is powerful enough for everything that I want will cost nearly as much or more then the Aspire which I already have anyway.į. This I hope will make me feel not so ripped-off next time when I pay my internet bill.Į. I wanted to have at least two wireless networks “different ssid”, to open safely one of them and share some of my bandwidth. I think it is as far the best firewall management solution on the market and it is free for Linux.ĭ. For this reason the Firewall Builder is included in this configuration with basic rule set. I wanted to have not only a standard firewall, but the full iptables power a simple thing like SSH tunnels for my children allowing home access from school are tricky with my router and traffic shaping is simply not there. Ipv6 is not part of this configuration, but the freedom is there if you want it.Ĭ. Ipv6 and DNSSEC are here to stay and no embedded router will give what I have with Linux I am simply interested in this field. In this configuration RADIUS is configured to use files.ī. The hostapd has also its own integrated RADIUS, but the freedom of having FreeRADIUS had been so tempting beside the setup with flat ASCII users file is really easy. I chose to have Free RADIUS, not only because I wanted a support for WPA and be able to append eventual access points with roaming, but also to have extensibility to any user data base, from local flat files to LDAP. What I wanted is a wireless router over which I have full control of all settings, log levels control, ability to install additional software for traffic analysis, a decent iptables firewall, RADIUS in short a wireless router with full Linux installed on it.Ī. I live in a crowded Wi-Fi area with over 30 access points coming from the apartments around me and the router obviously has troubles with this. Accidently, I happened to have some free time, one nearly three year old Aspire in my hands and I decided to do something about my growing dissatisfaction with my home router. The main reason for writing this document is to share my surprise of how easy it is to convert the Aspire One into a wireless access point on Slackware and how good the Aspire One hardware is for this.Additional administrative tasks you may consider necessary. Clients setup – WPA and WPA2 with self-signed certificates. Configuration (b.) - VLAN’s and switches- 13ħ. The easiest way of installing Slackware on Acer Aspire One- 7ĥ. It is actually the initial configuration. Configuration (a.) - with installation instructions for all necessary software for any configuration. Bridging between the two private networks and NATing only “Welcome” public network. Keep old router and append Aspire inside, providing two additional wireless networks. Some possible network configurations: 5Ī. How to turn the Acer Aspire One into a wireless access pointģ.
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