For some time now I’ve been meaning to use one of my cheaply acquired Seagate Dockstars as a replacement for three or four of the miscellaneous OpenWrt based boards I use around my home for wireless, gateway routing (NAT), vpn to my work (OpenVPN) and some other functions such as my home control box. I’m somewhat partial to using a Dockstar board for this, but these steps should work equally well on the Pogo E02 and any similar Kirkwood based device. Just be sure you put the right bootloader on or you could brick your board. You’ve been warned, don’t blame me, blah blah… The first link in this chain is building a wifi access point using a USB based radio and hostapd. I had no idea how non-trivial this would end up being, but after reading and attempting to follow some of the other online guides google found for me, I wanted to keep track of this as a backup to my own very poor memory, and to share with anyone aiming to achieve the same. Continue reading →