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

[David K. <80...@ke...>]

>A wallstreet as a router? Seesh, you must be one of those people 
>with a BMW station wagon...

Saab, actually, but a hatchback, not a wagon. Plus it's nine years 
old. Of course, the detail I left out about the wallstreet it that 
the screen was destroyed, and so I removed the screen, control the 
laptop with Timbuktu, and all it does is sit on top of my stereo, do 
NAT and play MP3's.

>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.

basically what I am doing now, but for various reasons, I wanted to 
run OS X on the router...

>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.

Well, I guess what I was thinking was if the laptop connects to an 
apple airport card "computer-to-computer" network, hasn't it just 
established an ad-hoc network that others can connect to? If all 
users are connected to that network, can't they use the wallstreet as 
the router by manually putting in whatever private IP we give the 
proxim card in network preferences? and won't that acheive the 
desired effect. The problem being, what happens if the router is the 
only thing on the airport network at some point? Will it completely 
drop the connection?

It's just that it is kind of a pain in the arse thing to do 
trial-and-error-like, so I was just putting out a feeler to see if 
someone could say for sure if it were possible or that it certainly 
wasn't. (Or if somebody working on the project could say, "it won't 
work, but don't worry about it, new drivers are coming out in a few 
weeks that support creating ad-hoc networks")

cheers,
-david


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