I did just find a link that said that a different version of a card
can be run in "ad-hoc" mode, which just lets them talk to each other...
it's not an 802.11 compliant option, but it is there. It's one of the
lucent cards, I guess.
So my brain just started bending. The issue for me is that I still
need my wireless notebook to have a public ip address so I can do
videoconferencing. I currently have three static IPs assigned to me.
I've got a linux gateway with one of the static IPs, and also serving
a private network (192.168.*.*) - so eth0 has a static, and eth1 has
192.168.1.1 .
So what would this mean? Would this process work? :
1. Put wireless card in linux gateway as eth2 (that's the third nic!)
2. Assign another static IP address to eth2
3. Put another wireless card in my notebook
4. Assign static IP to my notebook's nic
5. Set notebook's gateway to be the ip of my linux gateway's eth2 ?
That would be sweet. I could just take the airport back and save
my employers $300.
Curt
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:03:05PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> Do you actually need an Airport base station? I thought you could
> use a WaveLAN PCI card in a (wired) Linux box as your base station.
>
> But I'm not speaking from experience here...
>
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