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.

  • @elyviereOPEnglish
    1•5 days ago

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

    • @AbidanYreEnglish
      2•4 days 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•4 days 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!

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      1•4 days 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.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍English
      1•4 days 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.