Wireless networking setup

[Clayton Anderson]

Paul Hendrick wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to set up a wireless network, but i can't even set the
> desktop machine to be an access point(if thats what i need to do! :)
> The way I understand it, I'll have my desktop, wired to my router...so
> 
> [internet]<-->(router)--wire--(Desktop1)<---wireless--->Desktop2.
> 
> So how do I get desktop1 to send a signal? I've used the network-admin
> tool to add the wlan device, but it WILL NOT enable. and (even after
> restarting the network service), the output of iwconfig still shows
> this:
> Code:
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed 
> 
> when my essid is set to local_wlan, and i WANT the mode to be ad-hoc.
> 
> This is getting stupid now! ndiswrapper -l shows 
> Code:
> bcmwl5  driver present, hardware present
> 
> the network-admin tool hangs for ~30 seconds when trying to add the 
> device, so obviously something isn't going right?
> 
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thanks for reading.
> paul.
> 
Hi paul,
Do you have one wireless router with one hard-wired connection and one 
wireless connection? Or do you have two routers, one wired and one wireless?

Clayton