Brighton Chilli

[venture37]

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

Download the .tgz file from http://brightonchilli.geeklan.co.uk.nyud.net:8080/
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.

[picklemonkey]

Re: Brighton Chilli

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

[venture37]

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, 8255
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.