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

[yuriwho <yu...@ma...>]

Actually, old laptops make great webservers/routers as they have a 
built-in UPS system with their batteries and they have more than enough 
power to handle most non-commercial LAN's/websites.

Sorry but no ad-hoc yet.....it's on the list.

Y
On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 03:00  PM, David Kephart wrote:

>> 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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