Conference Wireless

[Ben Blakely <blakely () krellinst org>]

Hello List,
 We are looking for a solution that will allow us to deploy a wireless 
network at a conference with as little equipment and configuration as 
necessary, but require a username/password to get on the network 
(captive portal).  We're not worried about encryption so much as 
ease-of-use.  We want attendees to be able to sit down, connect to the 
network, type in a username and password that they've been provided and 
be good to go.  Ideally this would all be self contained in the AP.  
I've looked at m0n0wall and other linux based routing software and know 
that it could be done that way fairly easily.  However as all of the 
equipment for this conference needs to be shipped cross-country we'd 
like to avoid a second machine (in addition to the AP) if possible.

 Has anyone set up something like this before?  I've looked a bit at 
the Cisco Aironet 1100 AP's which seem to be quite nice, but require 
configuration on the client side beyond what we want to get into.  Does 
anyone know of any AP's that meet the above requirements?

Thanks in advance for your help!
/bab

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