I've rolled a Freesbie which contains everything needed to setup up a managed wifi hotspot.

Download the .tgz file from [URL]http://brightonchilli.geeklan.co.uk.nyud.net:8080/[/URL] Uncompress Burn the .iso Boot a system off the burnt disk follow the basic guide included in the .tgz file to get get everything rolling.

Re: Brighton Chilli

what hardware is required? you should give more info on this... you're pretty cryptic with it.

Re: Brighton Chilli

Well, you have 2 options, If you want your computer to act as a access point, you need a wifi card with the following chipsets: Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs. BayStack 660 and others Ralink Technology RT2500 wireless NICs. WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs. (Orinoco & Prism Chipset) Older non 802.11 Wavelan wireless NIC.

I'll be added support for Atheros & Ti chipsets in the next release, If you already have a hardware access point you just need 2 networks card inside your machine. The following chipsets are supported: DEC/Intel DC21x4x (Tulip'') Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit Ethernet Card Intel PRO/10GbE Ethernet Card 3Com 3cR990 (Typhoon'') 3Com 3c590, 3c595 (Vortex'') Broadcom BCM440x 10/100 Ethernet Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558) Level 1 LXT1001 gigabit Ethernet NatSemi DP83820 gigabit Ethernet nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100(precedence over 'lnc') RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S RealTek 8129/8139 Adaptec AIC-6915 (Starfire'') Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 SysKonnect SK-984x & SK-982x gigabit Ethernet Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) Alteon Networks Tigon I/II gigabit Ethernet Texas Instruments ThunderLAN SMC EtherPower II (83c170 EPIC'') VIA VT612x gigabit Ethernet VIA Rhine, Rhine II Winbond W89C840F 3Com 3c90x (Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'') Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0 NIC NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+ Etherlink III based cards Fujitsu MB8696x based cards EtherExpress 8/16, 3C507, StarLAN 10 etc. NE2100, NE32-VL Lance Ethernet cards SMC's 9000 series of Ethernet chips Xircom pccard Ethernet

PC spec wise anything from a 486 & above, need atleast 16 or 32mb ram, you don't need a harddisk inside the machine, just boot of the CD & issue a couple of commands & off you go. I'll hopefully automate the whole process within the next couple of releases so you just need to boot off the cd & answer & couple of question & that's it, you're up & running, there is a txt file included with the iso which tells you what you need to do to get going.

Try it & let me know what you think.