Hi haxor
I've never tried something like this but I think you can use hostapd for this. In order to install this take a look at the AlexT repositories.
You can get the packages that you need with:
root@edison:~# opkg install hostapd-daemon-dbg_2.1-r0_core2-32.ipk
You can usethat with the specific packages that you need and avoid getting all the packages in the repository.
Regards;
CMata