combo wireless and wired home network

[Bill McCormick]

On 8/6/2004 6:45 AM ... Earth time
Mike Burger configured a series of 1's and 0's as follows:
> 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.
> 
Here's My Setup:

                 Internet
                     |
                 DSL Modem
                     |
         Netgear FVS318 Firewall/VPN
           |      |       |       |
         [M1]   [M2]    [M3]      |
                                  |
           Netgear WG302 Wireless AP
                                  .
                                  .
                                  .
                                  .
                         +-----+-----+-----+
                         |     |     |     |
                       [M4]  [L1]  [L2]    |
                                           |
               Netgear ME101 Wireless Bridge
                                    |
                                   HUB
                                    |
                               +----+----+
                               |    |    |
                             [M5]

M1,M2 Redhat 9
M3,M4,M5 Win 2000
L1,L2 Laptop XP


Cheers,

Bill