Jim Thompson wrote:

> I've been down this path again and again since 2000, and you're in  for 
> a whole world of hurt that way, too.

Jim, can you elaborate? Is your poor experience with trying to ruggedise 
a commercial AP or with the FreeBSD4 wireless support in m0n0wall?

> The FreeBSD 6 (or -current) atheros driver is about as good as it  gets 
> (*) in the 802.11 world.  (It needs WDS, but thats about it.)   This is 
> why our path is to continue on the WRAP boards with pfSense  or possibly 
> the 6.0 m0n0wall variant, rather than explore yet another  commodity 
> board that will have its own set of issues, and be subject  to near 
> instant EOL status.

Maybe for this purpose it might be worth having a look at pfSense.