Another dumb question about cablemodem and wireless network

[Gary Wilson]

--- Harry Giles <hg57 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Will this work?
> 
> LInux box, using a standard wired NIC plugs in to
> the W.A.P. and the Windows 
> boxes on the network use the wireless cards. 
> The cable modem goes into the router, then plugged
> into the W.A.P.
> 
> The W.A.P. shouldn't care about the wired box being
> Linux, should it?

This will work. Linux works fine with Netgear and
Linksys, no expenience with D-Link.

I had a lot of problems the G band wireless and Linux,
but that was last February and maybe things have
improved by now. Wireless B band works flawlessly.

The Linux box can use DHCP to get everything from your
WAP, if you've set up DHCP.

Gary

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