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.
opnSense and WiFi don’t play too well due to limited BSD WiFi support.
OpenWRT is a much better choice for an AP.
At least make sure the WiFi on the minipc is supported by opnSense before attempting that…
I don’t mind which software, I could absolutely use openwrt instead. Assuming I do, which hardware might I need?
I only used OpenWRT on netgear (arm) hardware… So for x86 I have no idea, but they have great forums you can lurk or inquire…
It should support all WiFi chipsets supported by Linux.
Thanks, I’ll try to get more info on their forums then
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/openwrt_x86