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Praedor Atrebates wrote on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:00:00PM -0500 :
> desktop and laptop.  The thing is, my laptop HAS to be the wireless AP even 
> though it is not the gateway to the internet in this setup because my laptop 
> has a prism2-based wlan card that can use the hostap driver.  The desktop has 
> a linksys USB wlan device that cannot use the hostap driver.  I do not 
> believe it is possible to setup an ad-hoc wlan network that can network 
> share.  Thus, my laptop wlan card is the AP running dhcpd assigning an IP to 

Then I guess the setup at my house shouldn't be working.

> the desktop's wlan device but the desktop has the modem and has to act as the 
> gateway to the internet.

Should be doable.

> How do I do this?  Setting up a shared connection with the wizard tries to 
> make the desktop act as both the dhcp server (and thus AP) and the inet 
> gateway.  

Will have to go edit the files manually I am afraid.

> On the laptop I set the ip to 10.0.0.1 and setup dhcpd to give 10.0.0.5 to my 
> desktop.  This works and I can communicate and file transfer between the two 
> systems via wlan.  What I cannot do yet is make a modem connection to the 
> internet on the desktop and then access the internet, period.  Even though I 
> am connected to the net neither the desktop nor laptop can access it thus 
> far.  Something is not setup right somewhere but I am at a loss to correct 
> it.

Install the shorewall rpm (will probably have to download it from an
official Mandrake ftp site, not sure about that).  Then will have to
configure the files in /etc/shorewall/.  There is a lot of documentation
at http://www.shorewall.org.

Blue skies...                   Todd
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