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stefan.ciobaca
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 Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: [Solved] wireless without access point |
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I have at home one desktop computer and one laptop. The desktop computer is connected
through a cablemodem to the internet. I want to connect wirelessly with my laptop to the
internet, without having to buy an access point or a wireless router.
Is there any way to connect the two using just two normal wireless cards? (I don't see any
physical impossibility)
If it is possible, could you please point me to some tipps on configuring this?
If it is not possible, please let me know as well.
Thanks in advance.
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no_hope
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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It's definitely possible to do what you want, though some details may depend on peculiarities of your set-up.
Details of how to make your desktop into an AP will depend on your wireless card and drivers. Normally your would do something like this (assuming ath0 is the name of your wireless interface):
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iwconfig ath0 essid name-you-want-your-wireless-network-to-have mode master
ifconfig ath0 up
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On the laptop:
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iwconfig ath0 essid name-you-want-your-wireless-network-to-have mode managed
ifconfig ath0 up
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To make sure it worked, run "iwconfig ath0" on the laptop. If link quality is not 0, chances are everything is working (i.e. you have MAC-layer connectivity). If you assign IP addresses to your wireless interfaces they should be able to ping each other. You will have to edit /etc/conf.d/wireless to make your settings persistent
Now you'll need to set up your desktop as a router so that wireless traffic is routed to the cable modem. See Gentoo Home Router Guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml |
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UberLord
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stefan.ciobaca
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Ok. I have the thing up and running but the strangest thing is happening.
There are some webpages that I can only access as root. I'm serious. For example
www.mozilla.org loads just fine in links when I'm root. When I run as a normal user,
the same address yields: Host not found. (gentoo.org seems to work  )
The computer acting as router is running Fedora 3. I'm running Gentoo.
To set the whole thing up, I followed the docs in the
masquerading howto from tldp.org (which doesn't work either here)
Any ideas on this ? |
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stefan.ciobaca
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:36 am Post subject: |
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Thanks. The problem wasn't actually that the rights were wrong. The problem was that
I didn't have the correct nameserver stuff (I had leftovers from another connection).
Anyway, I solved everything. Thank you all. |
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