Re: Problems setting up wireless
- From: "PaulRS" <prschmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 4 Oct 2008 17:51:00 GMT
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:47:53 UTC, Chris Wilkinson
<nospamhere@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi there,
My desktop is connected via eth0 to the internet via cable modem,
with dhcp looking after ip. The modem only has one ethernet port
and no wireless so I cannot concurrently run the desktop and my
laptop on the internet.
I have a spare usb wifi adaptor, with the ralink rt73 chipset, so
I wish to setup that on the desktop to talk to the laptop (which
has an inbuilt intel pro 3945abg adaptor), and share the eth0
connection on the desktop so the laptop can access the internet
via wireless routed through the desktop.
Desktop has openSUSE 11, laptop has openSUSE 10.3.
My efforts at getting this working have failed, so I'm asking if
there is anyone out there able to help, or at least point me in
the direction of some guide on the net thats attacks the setting
up steps from the beginning, and in easy to understand terms.
All I can say at this point is that both desktop and laptop have
recognised their respective adaptors (laptop has worked with AP's
successfully). I can run "iwlist wlan0 scan" on both, and they
can see other routers in the vicinity, but not each other. I'm
using the iwl3945 module on the laptop, after googling reveals
thats better than the ipw3945. The rt73 module is loaded on the
desktop, although I also tried ndiswrapper - both ways I cannot
see the laptop (and it cannot see the desktop). I cannot set the
desktop to ad-hoc or master mode, only managed. I cannot give the
desktop adaptor a nick. I read that the serialmonkey version of
the ralink driver would allow me to do that, but trying to run
configure on that tells me the kernel source tree is incomplete
(which is nonsense, kernel-source is installed and all of the
other source-built apps have compiled without error).
Where do I start? Other than googling to learn all the above
my only other wifi experience consists of configuring the same
usb stick to do the same thing between two Macs, which was done
and dusted with a few mouse clicks and a couple of inputs of
essid etc...very easy.
Help!
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Edniburgh.
My solution primary requires a purchase - maybe Ebay used.
Buy a wireless router. Linksys makes one that has both wired and
wireless. Then connect the ethernet modem to the router; wire it to
desktop; and use the wireless for the notebook (or wired if local)
This is probably the best solution as the desktop does not have to
be on OR two people can be using the two computers with full speed
Sorry I can't do better. If I was trying to configure your current
setup. I would make sure the Laptop works with other wireless
connections first (It's linux OS is set right)
Then, I would get the desktop connected with it.
Questions to Answer
(1) Is the network share the same WORKGROUP name?
(2) Is the network open or encrypted (Start all this with no
WEP encryption)
(3) Has the "Wallet" utility come up when seeking to connect
(4) I set mine up with Samba and when things come up, it takes
from 5-15 minutes for the computer to recognize one another on the
network. (Windows is near immediate)
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