You don't need a switch unless you have other devices to connect. If your PC is connected to the Internet via wireless, all you have to do is wire your TP to your PC using a crossover cable (although if your PC's port is "auto-sensing" as most new ones are, you could use a standard patch cable). Then you enable bridging in the OS settings.
Adding a Controller makes things more tricky. The easiest thing to do would be to use the owners' wireless connection. The Controller should see SqueezeCenter on your PC since your PC is connected to the owners' wireless as well. Adding a second wireless card to your PC would be tricky, it may interfere with the first wireless network and your PC would have to manage everything, doing two bridging options simultaneously - wireless Internet to Ethernet for the TP, and wireless Internet to wireless WLAN for the Controller. Tricky, advanced, and the OS may not let you do it. But if you can't get the controller to use the owners' wireless, this might be easier and won't cost more than another wireless card - get a wireless router. Attach the Ethernet out of the PC to one of the LAN ports on the router. Attach another one of the LAN ports to the TP using a standard patch cable. The router will be acting as an AP. A Controller could then access the wireless portion of the router and communicate with SqueezeCenter on the PC. You would still have to do bridging on the PC, wireless to Ethernet, but it's do-able. -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta), SBC (early beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta) Sold: SB3, Duet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61271 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
