Re: making a gateway with eth0 wired eth1 wireless

2004-12-31 Thread chuck gelm
Ray Olszewski wrote: At 02:18 PM 12/31/2004 -0500, chuck gelm wrote: [...] &, just for grins; What is the model number of your LinkSys AP? WAP 11 ver 2.8. It's not the one that runs Linux, if you're wondering about that. Thanks. Oh. Hmmm, I've never heard of a wireless access point device that r

Re: making a gateway with eth0 wired eth1 wireless

2004-12-31 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:18 PM 12/31/2004 -0500, chuck gelm wrote: [...] &, just for grins; What is the model number of your LinkSys AP? WAP 11 ver 2.8. It's not the one that runs Linux, if you're wondering about that. Thanks. Oh. Hmmm, I've never heard of a wireless access point device that runs linux. :-| Do a Goo

Re: making a gateway with eth0 wired eth1 wireless

2004-12-31 Thread chuck gelm
James Miller wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, chuck gelm wrote: I have done something like this with a laptop with an 80486dx33 with 80 MB of RAM. I think we can drop the 'paltry resources' theme. I meant paltry for a day-to-day usage machine for real-world, productivity purposes. I know it will wor

Re: making a gateway with eth0 wired eth1 wireless

2004-12-31 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, chuck gelm wrote: > I have done something like this with a laptop with an 80486dx33 > with 80 MB of RAM. I think we can drop the 'paltry resources' theme. I meant paltry for a day-to-day usage machine for real-world, productivity purposes. I know it will work fine as a sor

Re: making a gateway with eth0 wired eth1 wireless

2004-12-30 Thread chuck gelm
James Miller wrote: I'm trying to make a temporary internet connection for a friend who's moving into and apt where they provide a wireless connection. Since I'm not sure whether she'll eventually buy a new computer or simply add necessary parts (mainly wireless adaptor) to some older machine I hav

Re: making a gateway with eth0 wired eth1 wireless

2004-12-30 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:43 AM 12/30/2004 -0600, James Miller wrote: Sorry about the lack of details, Ray: it was because I already have both interfaces working in this laptop and so don't really need help with setting that up. If I take this laptop into an area with a wireless network, for example, and the network h

Re: making a gateway with eth0 wired eth1 wireless

2004-12-30 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, James Miller wrote: > BEGIN LINKSYS MANUAL EXCERPT- > Note: For all modes of operation EXCEPT Access Point, the remote access > point must be a second Linksys Wireless-B Access Point (WAP11). The Access > Point will not communicate with a

Re: making a gateway with eth0 wired eth1 wireless

2004-12-30 Thread James Miller
Sorry about the lack of details, Ray: it was because I already have both interfaces working in this laptop and so don't really need help with setting that up. If I take this laptop into an area with a wireless network, for example, and the network has a dhcp server, I turn on the computer, the modu

Re: making a gateway with eth0 wired eth1 wireless

2004-12-30 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:03 AM 12/30/2004 -0600, James Miller wrote: I'm trying to make a temporary internet connection for a friend who's moving into and apt where they provide a wireless connection. Since I'm not sure whether she'll eventually buy a new computer or simply add necessary parts (mainly wireless adapto

making a gateway with eth0 wired eth1 wireless

2004-12-30 Thread James Miller
I'm trying to make a temporary internet connection for a friend who's moving into and apt where they provide a wireless connection. Since I'm not sure whether she'll eventually buy a new computer or simply add necessary parts (mainly wireless adaptor) to some older machine I have, I want to expend