Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] software base station via ad hoc

[Martin J. <mjo...@ma...>]

On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 11:12  AM, David Kephart wrote:

> I was hoping to install this driver on a 
> wallstreet/FarallonSKYline-11Mb that I currently use as a router for 
> my wireless network. I need the driver so I can put OS X on it without 
> killing my network.
>
A wallstreet as a router? Seesh, you must be one of those people with a 
BWM station wagon...
> If I could just set up any kind of ad hoc network, I could do NAT with 
> natd or OS X 10.2's built in Internet Sharing. I am pretty sure this 
> is currently impossible (unless you can fool it into connecting to 
> another ad hoc network as if it was a basestation?), but is there a 
> build in the CVS tree that has support for creating an ad hoc network?
I use a PB5300 running 8.6 and IPNetrouter as my base station,  with 
the wireless driver and a 266Mhz wallstreet running 10.2 as my 
workstation.

The PB5300 is running the Orinoco drivers, as Apple's don't work right 
on it.

Anyhow, I don't know how much help this is other then to say you can 
connect to an "ad-hoc" network from this driver fine.  I think it would 
be tough to achieve the setup you describe without another way to test 
the wallstreet 10.2 install.  The current installer is somewhat cranky 
and requires a bit of a jog to get it going....

Good Luck,
Marty