Wirelesslan setup.

[VeeDubb]

I surender!

I'm going back to fry's to exchange the WiFi card I got for my desktop for a wireless router. I'll be back later.

[probono]

I am using two different WLANs. The problem is: When I have used the one and want to use the other (other building), I have to reboot. (Different ESSID, different IP, different nameserver etc.) What's the "right" way of doing this (i. e. without reboot)? Anyone actually *done* that? (I know how it should work in theory...)

[garyng]

can't you just re-issue the 'iwconfig' command with the new setting ?

[VeeDubb]

Okay, I'm back with the Wlan router, I'll let you know how it goes.

[VeeDubb]

Okay, I installed the Wlan router with a regular Cat5 cable and now I can see it with my other devices and the cards int he other systems can connect to the router, but I realydon't know where to go from here. As I said before, I now litle about wired lans and less about wireless lans.

What I want to do is share the internet connection that I use on my linux desktop (it's a PPP connection at tty0) with my Windows XP laptop. As I said, I can now see the router with the other systems and the cards can connect to the router, but I've no idea where to go from here. Anyhelp appreciated.

[garyng]

do an 'ifconfig' to get the ip address first. I am assuming you can have each workstation seeing each other through the wireless connection, including the KNOPPIX box.

[VeeDubb]

Here are the results of ifconfig


lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3260 (3.1 KiB) TX bytes:3260 (3.1 KiB)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:67.227.206.106 P-t-P:67.227.128.59 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1
RX packets:7784 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8637 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:7130949 (6.8 MiB) TX bytes:1034385 (1010.1 KiB)

How do I use that info to set up the internet connection shareing on the laptop? I'm also going to be using a WiFi card in my PocketPC, but I'll worry about that connections share later.

[garyng]

um, where is the information for the wireless card on this KONPPIX ? I can't see it.

[VeeDubb]

As I said, I gave up on going with wireless cards all around, and exchanged my card on the knoppix box for a wlan router. The router is connected to a standard network card by a standard network cable.

[garyng]

I am confused. You have a WLAN router(which is a stand alone device), how can you connect it to the KNOPPIX ? If you mean through wire(RJ45), it means you have a normal network card on the KNOPPIX, then 'ifconfig' should show it.

How is the PPP connection connects to the outside world(ADSL modem or Cable modem or normal modem) ?