that depends on what you're doing. An ad-hoc network will create a small network where the connected computers can talk to each other - and should be very easy to set up with iwconfig commands (a quick google search for ad-hoc linux should do the trick)
If you want the linux laptop to behave as a wireless access point, this is doable as well, but takes significantly more configuration (you'll need hostapd and dhcpcd on the linux computer for starters), and some iptables rules to make the routing happen. I have a debian system with a wireless card acting as my home firewall/router, but I don't remember specifics on much of what I did. Dhcpcd was very little work, hostapd was a little more, and took some googling. As a median solution you can set up an ad-hoc network with some iptables rules to share the connection. There are some gui firewall apps to do this for you (one-click type solutions) On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Chaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got OpenSUSE 10.3 running on a Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop. > > I want to use the wireless side of networking to connect from a > Windows XP laptop (Dell Inspiron). > > I've tried setting the wireless network card as a master and giving my > own SSID etc but can not make a connection. > > Is there a "How To" anywhere I can use to make my Suse laptop a > wireless network domain host or something. > > Forgive my ignorance, I know Linux, but I don't know wireless too > well. > > Cheers, > > Chaz. > > > > -- Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
