[KLUG Hardware] Need help with wireless setup

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> If you want to lower the cost of broadband, look at things like dropping
> your second phone line and/or slashing your phone/long-distance bill by
> switching to a VOIP phone company like Vonage.

But be aware - no hard line = no 911 service.

> > Question: Can a wireless card in the Samba Server (soon SuSE 9.2) be
> > used for the new Dell notepad?  I assume I'll need todo some
> > "route" commands to make this work??
> You could, but I wouldn't.  It'll be a real pain to setup.

Agree, ad-hoc mode is poorly documented in general and poorly
implemented in many chipsets and poorly supported in most drivers.  

> I'd buy a cheap WAP and plug it into your switch.  Do NOT use the WAN
> port, simply plug the builtin switch part of the WAP into your switch.
> It's just like stacking another hub/switch and everything is all on the
> same subnet.

Yep.

How do you intend to handle security?

I'd put a second regular NIC in the server and plug the wap into that.