--- Keith Winston
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 02:47:34PM -0700, Charles Griffin wrote:
Hello everybody,
I am running SuSE 8.0 on my home-built system. I connect to the internet through a NIC card and cable modem (eth0) and it all works well.
Anyway, I am now considering installing SuSE 8.0 on my laptop and would like advice on how to:
* set up a wireless network (perhaps 802.11b or something equivalent) between the 2 computers; and * set up internet sharing so I can surf wirelessly over the network and through my base PC's broadband connection.
You've described something close to my home network. Here is the way I set it up:
Cable Modem -> Linksys Firewall/Router -> Desktop PC | Linksys Wireless Access Point -> Laptop w/802.11b
The Linksys stuff is inexpensive and not OS dependent. The firewall/router has 4 10/100 switched ethernet ports and does NAT and DHCP. The access point is connected by ethernet to the firewall/router. By the way, Linksys has a combo device that does firewall/routing, has a 4-port switch and also serves as a wireless access point, about US$270. They didn't have that when I set mine up.
Use cat5 cable for your ethernet connections so you can run at 100 Mbps instead of 10.
For wireless PCMCIA, I like the Orinoco silver or gold cards. They are also inexpensive and well supported by Linux drivers.
Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
Keith, Excellent suggestions -- thank you *very* much!! Now I have a fun project to work on! Thanks again, Charles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com