On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:46:48AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > > Hi folks. Been a looooong time since I've posted to this list. > > I have exactly zero experience with wireless -- I've never owned a laptop, > and have just never needed it. My gf, as part of her job, needs to bring > home a laptop with that other OS on it, and wants wireless access to > our broadband. > > We currently have a DSL connection: phone to DSL modem, ethernet out the > back of the DSL modem to our one desktop machine. I'm assuming that what > I want is a wireless router with LAN ports: ethernet cable from the DSL > modem to the wireless router, and ethernet cable from the wireless router > to the desktop machine while her laptop talks to the router by wireless. > We have a static IP address; I'm presuming that this wired/wireless router > will need to be configured with that address, and then will do NAT with > the desktop and the laptop. > > 1. Does what I just wrote make sense? Am I getting this correctly? yep two paths 1 buy the wireless router (and maybe put openwrt on it www.openwrt.org) 2 but a wireless card for your linux box and setup routing and do the nat on your box > > 2. If I'm on the right track, what about IP addresses for the desktop > and the laptop? Do I have to set them manually to addresses within > a non-routeable block? Or do such routers typically do DHCP or something > like that? most home wireless routers will have the dhcp range already setup > > 3. What about configuring the router (with the static IP address, any > DHCP operating parameters, etc.)? Since my desktop will be wired, I'd > like to be able to configure the router using my desktop -- which means > using Linux. If an application on an accompanying DVD is needed to > configure the router, I'm guessing that app is only going to work on > that other operating system. Or are there routers out there that are > configurable from a Linux machine in a straightforward manner? most are web based, the windows setup apps help to locate not actually needed to configure (from my exposure) > > 4. (most important) For someone moderately competent who somehow > has made it this far without learning much about wireless, what would > you suggest I read? Googling turns up thousands of pages of FAQs and > HOWTOs and so on (some of which are ancient -- but that doesn't mean > they're not useful, of course). There's lots of stuff out there; > but being ignorant, I don't know enough to know what's relevant and > what's out of date. What would *you* suggest I read? > have a look at openwrt.org lots of people doing what you are trying to do > Thanks much for any info, > > -c > > > -- > Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net > (remove "snip-me." to email) > > "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I > have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear -- "I think --tide turning --see, as I remember --I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of --it's easy to see a tide turn --did I say those words?" - George W. Bush 06/14/2006 Washington, DC in response to the question "Is the tide turning in Iraq?"
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