wireless question

[Bill Day]

would love to help set it up.. but since im reading mail through lookout, I
cant read anything your saying..  other than your request for help...

Mine is similiarly setup as Lonnies, however I do run DHCHPd for my internal
and have a static ext.

Net
|
Linux Server/Gateway/Firewall/Masq
|
2-5 port Switches
|
5 hard wired hosts --- one wifi access point(3Com AirConnect)
                                                            |
                                    Currently only 2 wifi clients (laptop
and wifes desktop)

I simply added wifi access point into my switch, watched my logs for its mac
addy requesting IP, assigned it a static via mac addy.

Once you can communicate(ping etc) with it, the easiest way is to use its
built in webserver, via telnet or via  serial connection(at least with my
3Com you can do any of those 3)

Install you cards in their respective box/laptop.  Setup your modules( i
have yet to do one, wifi, with linux. But Lonnie-NetLlama has).

HTH,

Bill Day

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----- Original Message -----
From: "dep" <dep at linuxandmain.com>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:41 AM
Subject: wireless question


> greets, folks!
>
> i am hoping to do a little bit of wirelessness here, largely -- no,
> entirely -- so that my wife can take her notebook machine out of her
> office and up by the fireplace (it was several degrees below zero
> here again this morning). problem is, i already have a nice hardwired
> network set up here, the lone purpose of which is to firewall and to
> give all the machines internet access via the cable modem. i am not
> especially eager to move everything to wireless.
>
> what i'm wondering, then, is whether it's possible to use one of the
> existing ports on my router, put a wireless box on it, put a wireless
> pcmcia nic in the notebook, and have it all work. and, if so, whether
> there's any special trick to making it work. it seems as if this
> ought to be okay, but it might also be that there would be some sort
> of dhcp collision or something, by chaining a wireless box (router,
> right?) after another router.
>
> ideas?
> --
> dep
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