[MLB-WIRELESS] How can I make a portable wireless delivery system?

[Naz Gassiep]

If you remove the requirement of WinXP and use Linux with Chilispot 
instead, it's very easy. You'd just put your desired page as the initial 
auth page.
- Naz.


Peter Berrett wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can someone please help me with a project I want to put together and
> test out.
>
> I have an old slow laptop - a Toshiba 1550CDS. I also have a small USB
> wireless adaptor that I can use with it for netstumbling and such. There
> is no important software on the laptop to speak of. It is running
> Windows XP but I don't wish to switch to Linux.
>
> What I want to do (in Windows) is reconfigure the laptop using my wifi
> adaptor so that it will act as a sort of portable wireless delivery
> system. By this I mean the wifi would be an Access Point with DHCP
> running and provide access to a prepared web page on the hard drive.
>
> The purpose of this is to make a simple portable wireless delivery
> system. Let's say for example, I was selling my house. I could turn my
> laptop on and place it in the house. It would not be connected to the
> internet - just a standalone laptop permanently on. I would then put a
> message on the real estate board outside telling people to connect their
> wirelessly enabled laptops to '123 Hobart Street' (ssid of laptop). When
> they did so and opened up their browser they would be automatically
> taken to a webpage which would have details about the house and pictures
> of the inside.
>
> Another use might be at a local festival. You take the laptop along and
> set it up and people can login and get information about the festival,
> where the toilets are etc.
>
> So I need some way to configure windows to allow people to connect using
> their laptop and be taken automatically to a web page of my choosing on
> the hard drive of the laptop.
>
> How can I do this without adding any extra hardware and in Windows XP? 
>
> Hoping someone can help
>
> Regards Peter
>
>
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