Using my laptop as a wireless bridge...

Okay this is one of the VERY few things I have missed since I made the switch from windows to linux. In windows I was able to connect to a wireless network on my laptop, and then share the network connection over my ethernet port. This would allow me to connect to my wireless network through my laptop on my computers with which only had ethernet. How could I get linux to do this?

Thanks in advance, John

Ran across this article. Thought it is for Ubuntu, it may translate into openSUSE somewhat.
Howto: Share mobile broadband in Ubuntu using only the GUI

If you are using KDE, I don’t know what it will take.

On Sun July 19 2009 09:06 pm, jgehrig wrote:

>
> Okay this is one of the VERY few things I have missed since I made the
> switch from windows to linux. In windows I was able to connect to a
> wireless network on my laptop, and then share the network connection
> over my ethernet port. This would allow me to connect to my wireless
> network through my laptop on my computers with which only had ethernet.
> How could I get linux to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance, John
>
>
jgehrig;

It sounds to me like you are trying to setup “IP masquerading”. See if this
HowTo helps.
http://opensuse.swerdna.org/suseics.html


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