combo wireless and wired home network

[Mike Burger]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Before getting in to deep, I'd like to hear a few comments on how this
> could be done:
> 
> I have no wireless experience so may have the lanquage and concepts
>   somewhat askew...
> 
>   I want to use a wireless connection for 1 computer on my home lan.
> 
> My machines (5) sit behind a NETGEAR dsl router/firewall.  Everything
> is currently cat 5.
> 
> I want a wireless hookup behind the router.  Some thing like: 
> 
> 
>                 INTERNET
>                   |
>                 DSl MODEM
>                   |
>           NETGEAR Router/firewall
>           |                  |
>          M1                 M2
>                             .
>                             .
>                             .
>                             []
>                             M3 
> 
> Where M2 is setup gatewayed (hardwire) to NETGEAR ROUTER and is itself
> a gateway (wireless) for m3.  So it needs a regular nic and something
> that makes a wireless accesspoint.
> 
> Is there such a thing as a pci card that is a wireless accesspoint?
> Or maybe M2 needs to be an actual hardware wireless router.
> 
> M3 is a laptop that I'd like to be able to connect to the lan from
> anywere around the grounds.  Like in the garage or etc.
> 
> Its an older Tosh 4005 but I'm guessing somekind of wireless nic
> exists for it.

All you need is a WAP (I'm using a Linksys unit, myself) and a PCMCIA 
wireless NIC that is compatible with Linux.  I'm using an Orinoco Gold 
card, but it's an "older" one, before chipsets were changed.  Check the 
hardware compatibility list for recommendations, first, and get one from 
the list.

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