Post #1147887

Anyone here has experience doing a "Wi-Fi box" in NetBSD? I wonder how big is the overhead. Both in user effort and computer resources. When I was younger I used to run a *very slow* virtual machine with Windows XP while daily-driving Linux. So I could interact with government webpages, banks, University software, etc. Anything that I couldn't do in Linux was done in this winXP VM. Now I'm getting close to do something similar. A light VM with linux to do anything that I can't in NetBSD. I still don't truly daily-drive NetBSD: I'm writing this tooth from my Linux Mint laptop, for example. To use the Wi-Fi from this machine, I still need a Linux driver, but I'm starting to pet the idea of a small VM + PCI passthrough to setup Wi-Fi, and use that VM as a router. Something tells me that battery life will be even shorter than it is now. But it would be better to hear that from people who have actually done something like that. #wifi #wifibox #NetBSD #runbsd