On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 20:31, Hyrum Wright wrote:
> Friends, Romans & Country{men|women},
> I've got a couple boxes in a network. One is a laptop with a wireless
> card and a standard 100-baseT ethernet interface. The other is a
> desktop with a wired PCI NIC. (Actually, the desktop is the box with
> the as yet nonfunctioning Broadcom based wireless card, for those of you
> keeping score at home.) I want to create a bridge on the laptop from
> the wireless connection (eth1) to the wired connection (eth0), and have
> the wired connection farm out a DHCP address to the host it is connected
> to via a crossover cable.
>
> I've compiled the bridge module in the kernel, and I've emerge'd the
> bridge-utils package. The ultimate goal is for the desktop machine to
> be able to access the Internet through the laptop and over the laptop's
> wireless connection. Where do I go from here?
I think you may want to use hostap and turn your laptop into a
rudimentary WAP. Not really sure, though. Real WAPs are very cheap
these days. I can get a Linksys WRT54G for 65 dollars on-line.
Michael
>
> -Hyrum
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