Wireless

wlan=essid,key

To join a secured wireless network with ESSID 'foo' and password 'francisco' append wlan=foo,francisco

Webconverger supports both WEP and WPA, though your Wireless access point should be using WPA for your security.

To join an unsecured network called 'w', append wlan=w,. Notice the trailing comma, this is because some ESSIDs have spaces.

To join any open network, append wlan=, to the boot options. This relies on some wpa-supplicant magic that needs testing. If you do join an unsecured wireless network, do remember you have little security until you connect with https/SSL !!

To join an ESSID with spaces, you need to entity encode it. Example ESSID "Hopstock Gjestenett", becomes:

wlan=Hopstock%20Gjestenett,

Track developments in webconverger.init.

Wireless router (recommended)

http://www.tp-link.com make some excellent products like the TL-WR1043ND.

A Linksys WRT54G in Wireless Client mode is a very good solution for wireless kiosk access. They are about 50USD and this dedicated hardware provides excellent Wireless access without the complication of often proprietary Wireless drivers for each client. The highly recommended Linksys WRT54G allows at least four machines to easily plug into the router.

Also the blog entry on this topic: Better Routing wanted

Recommended firmware:

• OpenWRT
• dd-wrt