Well, if the SB can connect to the neighbor's wireless, just putting a wifi card in the server should work. However, this would create 2 wireless hops between the server and the SB, which can create some performance issues.
Another potential option would be to put a wifi card in the server, and use it to connect to the neighbors wireless, and also create an ad-hoc wireless network for the SB to connect to. The advantage to this approach is that I think you'd have just one wireless hop between the server and the SB. The disadvantage is that most people don't bother with ad-hoc wireless networking (I've never done this), and this could be messy to impossible to configure. The reason I think this might be possible is that when I use my laptop (configured with Ubuntu 8.10) on my wireless network, the NetworkManager applet on my laptop gives me an option to "Create New Wireless Network...". If both your SB and your server can be wired to the same box, a final option would be to use a WRT54GL (flashed with DD-WRT etc.) to create a wireless bridge. Here, you would connect both the SB and the server to the device, and associate it with the wireless network. For this option, you may need access to configure your neighbors router. I've never done this either (though I do plan on doing it in a few months), and I'm not sure if this configuration can yield zero wireless hops between the server and the SB. -- cooppw02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61444 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
