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    Laptop as Access Point

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Paul, Jan 21, 2007.

  1. Paul

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    Okay, I know that a lot of wireless cards support using a wired ethernet connection and the wireless card to create a wireless access point. The wireless card can behave as an accesss point and transmit signal just like a router. I've seen it done with an Intel 2200 card. But I can't seem to figure out how to do this with my 3945. Does anyone know if it's possible to do so with this card, and if so, how?
     
    Paul, Jan 21, 2007
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    I believe you would need to set up an ad-hoc network with the wireless card, and then bridge to the wired ethernet connection. In windows, I believe you can simply right click and select "Bridge" but I dunno exactly how that works. If you want to do this with Ubuntu, check out http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Bridge
     
    BigV, Jan 22, 2007
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    Well, thanks for the reply, but that's not exactly what I was talking about (plenty of info of that on the net). This is more what I was talking about. But I don't think it can be done on the 3945 as I don't have options for Infrastructure mode, just Ad-Hoc.
     
    Paul, Jan 22, 2007
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    Bump to the top....
     
    Paul, Jan 22, 2007
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