Can I make a wifi access point with Broadcom?

[Agnishom]

I am completely new to Puppy Linux and to every kind of Linux even. Luckily, I have figured most of it.

I have a HP Pavilion g6 laptop and Lucid Puppy 5.2.8

I saw the other posts but does lupu-528 support the Broadcom Internal Device? If not, then is there a way to install the drivers?
My main purpose is to setup an access point.

Any help is appreciated

[Semme]

This from a terminal and let's see what you've got:

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lspci -nn | grep -i network

[Agnishom]

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sh-4.1# lspci -nn | grep -i network

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)

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[pemasu]

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 044#544044

[Agnishom]

Thanks. That detects the Broadcom device as eth1.

Am I ready to use hostapd?

[tempestuous]

Yes.

Get hostapd from here - "Puppy as a wifi access point"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84269
and carefully follow all setup instructions in the first post - substituting all instances of "wlan0" with "eth1" - since that's the interface created by your Broadcom device.

You may also need to tweak Puppy's firewall settings - see later in that thread.

[Agnishom]

My internet connection is ppp0.
Will the up and down commands work for me?

[tempestuous]

Probably not.
Someone tried this before, and every time they tried to add a bridge-interface for ppp0 they got an error message.
There's an explanation here -
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipe ... 05726.html

What's the exact nature of your ppp0 interface? What physical hardware is involved, and what type of service does it connect to?

[Agnishom]

It is a ZTE Reliance Netconnect+ Modem. In other words, its just a USB modem detected as ttyUSB0

[Agnishom]

Please see this link below:
http://someshblog.blogspot.in/2011/07/s ... 3g-or.html

I can't follow the instructions from Adding NAT ip rule in iptables:

Please help!!