After a hardware upgrade I ended up with a spare mini pc. Noticed these two icons and thought I might be able to use it as a WiFi access point with VLANs using OPNsense.

Is that possible? If so, what do I even need to buy to plug into there?

I don’t need it to do any fancy dhcp, dns or firewall stuff, I just need a WiFi access point with support for VLANs.

  • @AbidanYreEnglish
    8•20 hours ago

    You’d probably be a lot better off buying a decent access point (unifi, mikrotik, Aruba instanton).

    • @elyviereOPEnglish
      1•1 day ago

      Are any of those open source? I was hoping to go the open source route

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        1•18 hours ago

        Many devices support OpenWRT

        Pick something that you like and then check support. If it is not supported there is probably a similar supported device.

      • @AbidanYreEnglish
        2•24 hours ago

        Not really. If that’s a hard requirement, check out what is supported by openwrt or freshtomato.

        There was a similar question a few days ago with some points about wifi adapters vs access points brought up.

        https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36614200

        • @elyviereOPEnglish
          2•23 hours ago

          It’s mostly just a strong preference, so if I can reasonably do it I’d like to. Some great info in that post, thanks for finding it!

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍English
        1•1 day ago

        Nyes?

        GL-iNet devices run DD-WRT, with an added (probably not open source) web interface. However, if you ssh into any of their routers, it’s BusyBox and DD-WRT. And if you click go into the admin web page and click System->Advanced you end up with a link that takes you to luci, the raw DD-WRT web UI for the device. The company’s UI is just a simpler, more pretty UI on top of DD-WRT.