Wireless network card setup, Fedora Core 1...

[Michael Mayhew]

Exactly Eric. I already have a wireless NETWORK set up, hence my subject of 
wireless network CARD setup. Thanks for your help.

Michael


>From: "Eric Diamond" <eric at ediamond.net>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: RE: Wireless network card setup, Fedora Core 1...
>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:09:25 -0600
>
>Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:55 AM Jay Daniels
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:09:54AM -0400, Michael Mayhew wrote:
> > > Also, since I don't have internet until this
> > > card is installed,
> >
> > What about a wireless router and connect it directly to your
> > network card.  Wouldn't a good wireless router handle the
> > security/encryption for the wireless network and as long as
> > the wireless router had a web interface to control it and
> > used tcp/ip and encrypted the data over the air, it would
> > seem to me that any Linux box with a working network
> > interface would work?
> >
> > I don't understand your problem or why you must install a
> > wireless adaptor to setup a wireless network?  Couldn't you
> > use a wireless router like the one I described above and
> > avoid all this confusion?
> >
> > Perhaps I'm lost, I have not setup a wireless router, but as
> > I understand it that's how it works.  Comments please???
>
>Michael stated pretty clearly that he was trying to install this card to
>connect to an existing wireless network. Hence the comment that this
>machine would not have internet access until the card was running.
>
>Trying to use a router or access point to convert from wireless to wired
>access won't work unless the owner of the router/access point on the
>other end was willing to set up wireless bridging. Actually, after
>rereading that last sentence, I realized that it wouldn't work at all
>using wireless routers. I haven't seen a router yet that would run as
>one half of a wireless bridge.
>
>Now if the other end was an access point only, then it might have the
>capability to run in bridge mode, but if the owner set it up that way it
>would stop working as an access point and then the other users of the
>wlan would be SOL.
>
>Eric Diamond
>eDiamond Networking & Security
>303-246-9555
>eric at ediamond.net
>
>
>
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