a finnish company has released something they
are calling the

Radionet Open Source Environment (“ROSE”)

for building wireless lan access points. there are other options
for doing this type of thing, including the popular
nocat

, but none of the other contenders were really designed to be
deployed on “embedded systems”. “rose” claims this with a fairly
competitive feature set, so things are looking pretty
intriguing:

“ROSE can be used with both embedded devices and
personal computers. Initially, ROSE is available for Intel and
PowerPC architectures and the software can be easily cross compiled
to other HW platforms such as MIPS and ARM.”