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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Wireless Router as an Access Point

12 Comments

Very Helpful

Very easy to follow and understand. Very helpful. Thanks

wireless This clients using Linux

I was looking for a solution where in thin clients on my network can boot from a wireless card

Right now Ubuntu is being used as LTSP server and for experiments I used IBM Think Pad Laptop as thin client . Laptop is booting properly via PXE option. Now I want to use a Laptop as a Thin client with a wireless option.

Is there an option with which the Ethernet and Wireless on the Laptop can be bridged and PXE boot request that goes from Enternet , goes from wireless.

I have a DSL wireless router connected to my LTSP Server.

I see some solution in this article but don't know to go about,.

RS

Great Advice

I really appreciated the walkthough of making a wireless router an access point, but I found that with my new router (D-Link WBR-2310) there was an option in the setup to click - 'Use this router as an access point' that when clicked disabled all of the NAT services for me. All I had to do was change the admin password and activate security.

NEEEEEED HELLLLLP PLZ

Okay my problem is that i have a wireless router in place already and it works fine. i have a second wireless router which i want to use as an access point to reach further corners of my house. i want to know would i configure it the same way or would i have to do some other way if another way can some one tell me how!!!

Thanks a lot

I had a wireless router and a got a new router from my new internet provider, a wanadoo livebox, that is had to use. To keep a WLAN in the house i purchased a wireless accespoint. (stupid, i should have come here earlier).

This week the accespoint gave up, and here i was stuck again. I then remembered the wireless router and thought this must somehow be possible and started googeling.

This is exactly what i needed, when following your instuction it all made sense, but i simply didn't have enougn knowledge or experience to figure it out myself.

B and G

Can I use an old B wireless router as an access point? I have a wireless G as my main router now.

With that config can more

With that config can more than one wireless device connect to the AP ?

differnet setup

i just go an ASUS wl-500gP router and it has the option to "use as access point" in the web manager but everytime i select this option the roueter restarts and i cant access the web manager any longer.can you help with this please?

Exactly what I needed

My network at home is wired (Linksys). I have a Laptop that I use at work that I occasionally bring home. I kept looking at Fry's waiting for an Access Point to go on sale. No luck.  Today they were selling Airlink Wireless Routers for $19.00. Made the changes you recommended as well as changing the IP number of the Airlink. Works great. I hope all of those expensive Access Points stay and gather dust. What are those people thinking?

Great walk through! I

Great walk through! I bought a Linksys WRT54GS last night because my old access point (connected to my wired router) went bad. I didn't want to give up my wired router because it has been stable and I just don't wont to lose George (yes I named it.) Anyway, thanks for the article now I know how to keep George and get an access point running again. I cross my fingers it works with my Macbook Pro. My old access point did, but when shutting down George and hooking up the Link WRT54gs it didn't recongize my book. *crossfingers*

I have the same setup. My

I have the same setup. My question is how can I open ports?

Great instructions. A few

Great instructions. A few things that you might want to add is make sure your wireless router IP is different from your wired router. If your wireless is 192.168.1.1 and your wired is 1.1 then you have IP confects. As far as opening ports. You do that on your wired router. AP is just broadcasting your wired traffic. Your wired router controls everything. So you have to open ports on your wired router. The wireless is an AP with a 3port switch(one ports being used by uplink to wired) As far as hooking a mac up to it. As is should work. its the same 802.11G protocol as an Airport card. You just might have to configure it using the web browser or a PC.

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