Download DD-WRT Hotspot Wi-Fi firmware Select the model of your Wireless Router or your Access Point and download the 'Mini (or factory)' and 'Full' firmwares.
The little network routers you can purchase in the store are ok, but they are not upgradeable. With things changing so fast, that seems like a boon only for the router manufacturers. Also firmware upgrades quickly cease. Having a router on a pc makes more sense not only for the ability to upgrade the hardware, but you can add so many more features software wise. You are not limited by the memory or space of the boxed routers. Nothing wrong with the boxed routers for a turnkey setup. If you are like me, you want more. That is why I also use Openwrt.
This is a great project to put an old pc back to work. Openwrt is a cousin so to speak of DD-WRT that is installed on many brand name routers to increase their capabilities. Midi mapper windows 7. Openwrt will also allow a pc to act as an expensive router without the big price tag. Of course, you could easy use some of the router distros such as ipcop and many others (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_or_firewall_distributions). openwrt is so much more upgradeable and expandable.
This is a great project to put an old pc back to work. Openwrt is a cousin so to speak of DD-WRT that is installed on many brand name routers to increase their capabilities. Midi mapper windows 7. Openwrt will also allow a pc to act as an expensive router without the big price tag. Of course, you could easy use some of the router distros such as ipcop and many others (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_or_firewall_distributions). openwrt is so much more upgradeable and expandable.
Did this with the original image on a pentium2 and it worked well. If you want the gui, you may need to install the web add-on.
Installing OpenWrt x86 on a PC. (Try this at your own risk!!!)
Requirements:
Dd Wrt Software Download
An X86 compatible pc (i386) or greater with at least 16MB of RAM, 2 network cards, and a hard drive. With newer versions of openwrt require higher hardware requirements. Check openwrt.org for more details.
OpenWrt binary file, for x86.
Old:
Newer:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/x86/openwrt-x86-generic-combined-ext4.img.gz (need to gunzip first) to openwrt-x86-generic-combined-ext4.img
($ gunzip openwrt-x86-generic-combined-ext4.img.gz)
Installation:
For M$ Windows, please also get physdiskwrite. [http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php]
For Linux just use dd.
Grab the latest binary code from OpenWrt download site.
dd if=openwrt-x86-2.6-ext2.image of=/dev/hda (where hda and image name must be changed)
or
Download Dd Wrt X86
dd if=openwrt-x86-2.6-ext2.image of=/dev/sda (where hda and image name must be changed)