-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/dsp #for great justice Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.4mdk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE947p7lp7v05cW2woRApvDAJ9D9IdQ6IMmffIiZ+bfGuNiFt8ongCgqE19 5Cq0a3WOhIPxtLXoNqM2K1M= =VpOI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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