[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > Terrence Brannon wrote: >> Bob Proulx writes: >> > Yes. Very easily as a matter of fact. Install a wired network card >> >> I believe I have one. The output of lspci shows a Realtek card. Is >> this what you mean? Otherwise, please recommend a popular brand. > > Yes. A Realtek is quite popular. If you are running discover from > Sarge it will autodetect this and load the 8139too driver. (On Woody > without discover you would need to specify this manually in > /etc/modules.) > > With a Realtek device available you should be ready to go.
ok. great. > > >> > > in the same machine that currently has a wireless network connection. >> > It can gateway the data to your wired network. In this mode it will >> > function as a router. The wireless interface will be the WAN >> >> WAN means wireless area network or wide area network? > > Wide Area Network. The Internet. As opposed to Local Area Network. > Your private network. Understood. >> > * Ensure that packet forwarding is in place. Use either a firewall >> > package or do this yourself with low level commands. >> > >> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Ok, I did this echo cmd with no prob Now it appears that it is time to setup dhcp on my laptop. There appear to be 3 choices in Debian testing: dhcp, dhcp3-server and udhcpd. Do you have any reccomendations for any of these? pool-71-109-151-76:/proc/sys/net/ipv4# cat ip_forward 1 pool-71-109-151-76:/proc/sys/net/ipv4# apt-cache search dhcp | grep server bootp - server for the bootp protocol with DHCP support dhcp - DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment dhcp3-dev - API for accessing and modifying the DHCP server and client state dhcp3-server - DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment dhis-server - Dynamic Host Information System - server dnsmasq - A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP server. resolvconf - nameserver information handler udhcpd - very small DHCP server pool-71-109-151-76:/proc/sys/net/ipv4# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]