Suse 7.1

I have Suse 7.1 Personal edition installed in my second PC. My first PC
is a Windows XP professional machine. The Windows PC has a broadband
internet connection. Is it possible to share the internet connection with
my linux pc through wireless networking. Each machine is in a different
room of the house - about 10 metres away from each other. What additional
hardware and software will I need?

gordon@gordon.scobie.name wrote:
> I have Suse 7.1 Personal edition installed in my second PC. My first PC
> is a Windows XP professional machine. The Windows PC has a broadband
> internet connection. Is it possible to share the internet connection with
> my linux pc through wireless networking. Each machine is in a different
> room of the house - about 10 metres away from each other. What additional
> hardware and software will I need?

1. Update the second PC to SL10 if you can. You can download the OSS version
and complement it with additional installation sources.
2. Get yourself a LinkSys wireless router or similar. Configure it and turn
on its firewall.
3. Stop using ICS. It sucks anyway.
4. Turn of the firewall on the XP machine. You don't need it because the
router will do that for you.
5. Find a wireless PCI card that is supported natively. That is by far the
best solution. Viz:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_.../Wireless.html

6. If you have the SuSE box running, allot static IP numbers to both
machines. Use numbers in the 192.168/16 or 10/8 range. Those are
specifically meant for internal networks. Run a name server for your
internal network and run Samba on the Linux box to share files.

I own the rfpels.nl domain, and what I did was to name my internal network
hq.rfpels.nl. Then I assigned hostnames that are metasyntactic variable
names: foo, bar, qux, fiz, baz.

The name server forwards to the LinkSys router as its first forwarder. The
LinkSys router then uses the DHCP information from my ISP to forward the
nameserver requests to my ISP. Works like a charm.

While your at it, another good service to run is an ntp daemon.

--
Ruurd

R.F. Pels wrote:


> 2. Get yourself a LinkSys wireless router or similar. Configure it and
> turn
> on its firewall.

Of course, with Linksys, you'll be tied to Windows for configuring the
router. Their configuration software is designed for Windows machines only.
But in this case I don't suppose that'll be a problem.

Graham

Graham P Davis wrote:
> R.F. Pels wrote:
>
>
>
>>2. Get yourself a LinkSys wireless router or similar. Configure it and
>>turn
>> on its firewall.
>
>
> Of course, with Linksys, you'll be tied to Windows for configuring the
> router. Their configuration software is designed for Windows machines only.
> But in this case I don't suppose that'll be a problem.
>
> Graham

Nonsense - LinkSys have a perfectly good web interface

I never take the 'doze CD out the package

--
Clive

Clive Eisen wrote:
> Graham P Davis wrote:
>
>> R.F. Pels wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 2. Get yourself a LinkSys wireless router or similar. Configure it and
>>> turn
>>> on its firewall.
>>
>>
>>
>> Of course, with Linksys, you'll be tied to Windows for configuring the
>> router. Their configuration software is designed for Windows machines
>> only.
>> But in this case I don't suppose that'll be a problem.
>>
>> Graham
>
>
> Nonsense - LinkSys have a perfectly good web interface
>
> I never take the 'doze CD out the package
>

Even from Windows, I use the web interface.

Larry

Clive Eisen wrote:

> Graham P Davis wrote:
>> R.F. Pels wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>2. Get yourself a LinkSys wireless router or similar. Configure it and
>>>turn
>>> on its firewall.
>>
>>
>> Of course, with Linksys, you'll be tied to Windows for configuring the
>> router. Their configuration software is designed for Windows machines
>> only. But in this case I don't suppose that'll be a problem.
>>
>> Graham
>
> Nonsense - LinkSys have a perfectly good web interface
>
> I never take the 'doze CD out the package
>

I wasn't talking about the CD but the web-based configuration software. I
bought a Linksys Wireless-G and found I had to use a Windows system to set
it up. The configuration HTML software contained in the router is not W3C
compatible - 346 errors on the opening page - and so cannot be viewed in
Firefox or Konqueror. The software is designed for Windows machines and
needs IE - though I suppose you might get away with Netscape.

To be fair to Linksys, I'm very satisfied with the hardware - just a pity
they spoilt the ship for a haporth of tar.

Graham

Graham P Davis wrote:
>
> I wasn't talking about the CD but the web-based configuration software. I
> bought a Linksys Wireless-G and found I had to use a Windows system to set
> it up. The configuration HTML software contained in the router is not W3C
> compatible - 346 errors on the opening page - and so cannot be viewed in
> Firefox or Konqueror. The software is designed for Windows machines and
> needs IE - though I suppose you might get away with Netscape.
>
> To be fair to Linksys, I'm very satisfied with the hardware - just a pity
> they spoilt the ship for a haporth of tar.
>
> Graham

The web interface for my Linksys WRT54G V1 wireless router works perfectly well with Firefox on both
Linux and Windows. The only time that IE ever gets used here is to update Windows. What Linksys
model and version do you have. I'll want to avoid it if I need to replace.

Larry

Graham P Davis wrote:

> Of course, with Linksys, you'll be tied to Windows for configuring the
> router.

No you don't.

> Their configuration software is designed for Windows machines only.

No it isn't.

> But in this case I don't suppose that'll be a problem.

As a matter of fact the configuration can be done with Konqueror. No
problem. Find out the magic IP number from the documentation and use your
browser to browse to that. I have a WRT54G that works perfectly this way.

--
Ruurd

Graham P Davis wrote:

> I wasn't talking about the CD but the web-based configuration software. I
> bought a Linksys Wireless-G and found I had to use a Windows system to set
> it up. The configuration HTML software contained in the router is not W3C
> compatible - 346 errors on the opening page - and so cannot be viewed in
> Firefox or Konqueror. The software is designed for Windows machines and
> needs IE - though I suppose you might get away with Netscape.

AS I said. I have a WRT54G v5. No problem with Konqueror. Or FF.

--
Ruurd

So I need a router for the first PC - what hardware do I need for the
second PC? Does anyone know where I can get a good basic guide to setting
up?