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Hi,

Can anyone point me in the direction of a reasonably up-to-date HOWTO of how to run an access point within Debian, please? I am looking to be able to use my MiniITX based system as an access point, and all the documentation I've found seems wildly out of date.

More specifically, I'm currently failing to get my Broadcom BCM4306 (rev3) based PCI card to switch to Master mode. I am using the b43 driver, with a firmware collected with b43-cutter. All appears to be well, and acording to this the driver should support Master mode. Am I missing something? (I'm on kernel 2.6.26-2-686 if that helps.)

To pre-empt the two most obvious questions:

* I don't want to just run this in Ad-Hoc mode as part of the duty of the wireless network will be for the connection of smartphones, which seems to be considerably easier with an infrastructure type network.

* I don't want to just plug an access point in for a number of reasons, firstly I don't have one spare, secondly I would like to minimise the power consumption of this setup, and there's always the aspect that I'd like to know how to do this by hand if it's reasonably practical.

Thanks in advance for any help.

--Toby

I needed to download some pictures that my Mom took on her digital camera today. She has a Canon Power Shot SD 780.

Did some quick googling to learn that Debian has a command-line program that can be used, and apparently supports a very large range of digital cameras: gphoto2
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Connected my mom's camera via usb cable to my workstation.
Next did:
sudo aptitude install gphoto2

Then created a directory on my filesystem
robert@pip:~/cameraPictures/mom mkdir _2009-12-25

Then cd'd to the directory. In the directory, ran this command:
gphoto2 -P

This command downloads _all_ the photos from the camera to the directory where you executed the command.
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Just wanted to share this quick way to get photos, in case you were like me :)
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Happy Holidays Everyone!