Hi,
On Opensuse 11.2, I would like to connect my ipod touch to a wireless ad-hoc network of my laptop. I have no wireless WIFI-router at home, so I have to use the laptop as a router to the internet.
I know I have to enter a static IP adres and my router’s address, but where ? I haven’t found any place under network tools to do this, only saw some fields with SSID’s and MAC addresses to fill in.
Can anybody guide me how to do this step by step ?
On 04/13/2010 03:56 AM, jolato wrote:
>
> Hi,
> On Opensuse 11.2, I would like to connect my ipod touch to a wireless
> ad-hoc network of my laptop. I have no wireless WIFI-router at home, so
> I have to use the laptop as a router to the internet.
>
> I know I have to enter a static IP adres and my router’s address, but
> where ? I haven’t found any place under network tools to do this, only
> saw some fields with SSID’s and MAC addresses to fill in.
>
> Can anybody guide me how to do this step by step ?
Not all wireless drivers support ad-hoc networking. In addition, I do
not believe it is supported by YaST. You will need to use the primitive
command-line tools like iwconfig, iwconfig or iw.
What driver does you laptop use?
I had spotted this on the forum:
Ad-hoc network and ipod touch - openSUSE Forums
However, I could not find any “Network Manager” they mention 
Then I installed and tried KNetwork Manager because I expected it to offer a better interface, but when I launch it, nothing happens. I can see no difference.
You can read about wifi ad-hoc setup here:WiFi Howto
THanks, I followed this simple procedure for defining my new “wifi1” network. I assume the IP-address (192…) . can be completely independent from that of the eth0 interface (78…) ? Also, the prrocedure uses the same for both local and gateway IP, which I expected to be different at least for the last digit ?
I assume the IP-address (192…) . can be completely independent from that of the eth0 interface (78…) ?
Yes, they should be in different networks. For example: your wired interface eth0 have 192.168.1.2/24 network address and your wireless interface wlan0 should have 192.168.2.1/24 network address.
Your ipod should be in the same network as your wireless interface. For example: network address for ipod - 192.168.2.2/24
Your wlan0 address will be gateway address for ipod.
You can read more about netwoking and network configuration in openSUSE 11.2 Documentation chapter “Services”, section 21 “Basic Networking” on novell.com
Next step is to enable masquerade to make possible internet sharing from laptop.