Re: [slim] Trivial Q about wireless bridging

2007-02-02 Thread seanadams
Hmmm - I tested this just now, and ad-hoc is not working for me either... -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t

Re: [slim] Trivial Q about wireless bridging

2007-02-02 Thread Mitch Harding
From what I read of this thread, I think you hit the nail on the head in the last paragraph. When you are doing setup on the Transporter you need to make sure the laptop is ready to go for adhoc, so that the Transporter is able to connect to it. On 2/2/07, cliveb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: s

Re: [slim] Trivial Q about wireless bridging

2007-02-02 Thread cliveb
seanadams;176890 Wrote: > By definition, if you are bridging it means you are connected to _both_ > interfaces. This was one of the key points made in that other thread - > that the firmware doesn't have any notion of which interface is the > "primary" one, and will automatically figure out whate

Re: [slim] Trivial Q about wireless bridging

2007-02-02 Thread seanadams
cliveb;176874 Wrote: > Now this is very interesting. I have just one wireless device (a > laptop). At the moment, I've got an old 11b WAP that only supports WEP > encryption. So maybe I could press the Transporter into service as a > WPA-capable 11g "access point" instead. Yes you can. Note that

Re: [slim] Trivial Q about wireless bridging

2007-02-02 Thread cliveb
Peter;176856 Wrote: > cliveb wrote: > > Can anyone confirm for me something that I'm fairly certain I > already > > know the answer to > > > > A Squeezebox or Transporter can be used to provide a bridge into a > > wireless network for non-wireless devices. But can it be used the > other > > w

Re: [slim] Trivial Q about wireless bridging

2007-02-02 Thread Peter
cliveb wrote: > Can anyone confirm for me something that I'm fairly certain I already > know the answer to > > A Squeezebox or Transporter can be used to provide a bridge into a > wireless network for non-wireless devices. But can it be used the other > way around, ie. act as a wireless access

Re: [slim] Trivial Q about wireless bridging

2007-02-02 Thread Ramage
Have a look at this thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31850 which has a lot of info on the capabilities of SB as a wireless bridge. -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux ClarkConnect 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11206, Alien 1.06 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, SlimServer Version: 6.5.2 - 1130

Re: [slim] Trivial Q about wireless bridging

2007-02-02 Thread ceejay
You're right, it won't work as an access point. -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32361 __

[slim] Trivial Q about wireless bridging

2007-02-02 Thread cliveb
Can anyone confirm for me something that I'm fairly certain I already know the answer to A Squeezebox or Transporter can be used to provide a bridge into a wireless network for non-wireless devices. But can it be used the other way around, ie. act as a wireless access point? I'm assuming that