Half the reason I joined to this site was to report that this works wonders!
Using the
Linux Method, both
Numero 1 and
Numero 2 on Debian Wheezy with a Broadcom BCM431x series wireless card that supports Ad-Hoc / IBSS, works just as well as advertised except for a couple of minor issues:
* Running "
nzone.ap start" does not work if one has a local DNS service *other* than dnsmasq running in the machine.
* After running "
nzone.ap stop" I was required to manually kill some lingering "hostapd" processes manually
* For the main nzone script (
nzone.sh) I had to change "Ubuntu" to "Debian" in the grep requirement at the beginning of the script so that other distros are supported. I'm not sure if there exists an official channel to recommend this change as it greatly and unnecessarily restricts what systems can this script be used on
Since one is using Linux anyway, none of these issues is a showstopper or anything close.
It's impressive, to me at least, that this kind of scripts can do something so impressive with relatively little requirements. So congrats to the people involved, and to gbatemp people for providing directions in its usage.