Laptop wireless card in Master mode to control robots?

[daltore]

This next year, our robotics program is going to get a few cRIO's and use them for non-competition robots in class, and we're looking for the cheapest ways to control these things wirelessly. I found some very cheap wireless N bridges for the robots, but I was thinking about controlling the network. Our laptops have Dell 1505 wireless cards, which have Draft N capability. If these do have master mode (still looking), would it be possible to just use the laptops to control the individual robots instead of using a router? This would make things significantly cheaper and simpler (well, maybe not simple, but at least a little better).

If you can think of any other alternatives to the DS and a router, let me know. Anything that can tell the FRC version of the cRIO what to do over the airwaves is fine, we just don't quite have the budget to purchase several full control systems.