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Ubuntu as an wireless access point

I have a PCI wireless netgear card that I wan't to use to extend the server with wireless accesspoint function.

We need the hostapd daemon for the access point functionallity

sudo apt-get install hostapd

Edit /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf, delete everything and put this in the file:

interface=ath0
driver=madwifi
auth_algs=1
wpa=1
wpa_passphrase=put_a_password_here
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP

Now we make the wireless access point. Do this by typing the following;

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

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