Hi Mehmet, Thanks for this. I have now installed a netgear wireless router/access point and have a Netgear USB MA111 thing to connect with. (Now just got to get this working under linux with iwconfig & friends!) The 'big picture' part I was missing totally is that the router/access point itself, logs on to the ISP, so one can connect to the hub with either computer, using whatever OS the user selects (if properly configured). In fact, with Telstra Bigpond (cable) this actually makes things easier as it is not necessary to run BPALogin (or buggy telstra written equivalent) on client computers wishing to connect to the internet. So all in all, much easier, cleaner and nicer than I was anticipating. Now I've got to get back to those iwconfig command and ifcfg-wlan0 files. I suspect your comment "set up in Ad-Hoc mode" will proove valuable. Thanks again, Hal
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mehmet Yousouf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:27:32 EST To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Home Wireless two easy ways of achieving this: A: ADSL Router/modem/hub that will do the connecting a wireless access point and two wireless cards set to managed I've used D-Link with no problems. access point is "plugged" into the modem. B: The setup I have at home is an ADSL modem connected to an expensive linux firewall box (pentium 200, 64mb ram, 6.4 gig hd, cdrom, network card, wireless (D-Link) card running a proxy server (not neccessary but handy for statistics), a mail server, webserver, and groupware for the family (using group-office right now). add wireless cards as needed to other pcs and set up in Ad-Hoc mode. If you have any questions, more than happy to assist. Regards, Mehmet -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.iname.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
