[ale] Fun(?) with wireless

[Bridges, Doug]

I just moved into a new house, and I think that I would like to implement a wireless network.  I am going to be getting a wireless laptop from work later this year, and I would like to have my home network setup when I get it.  Currently, I have BellSouth DSL running into a Linksys ethernet router.  My home machine is connected into this router.  However, I do have a ThinkPad with a detached screen that is not in use.  It has an internal PCI ethernet card, and I have a PCMCIA Linksys WPC54G 802.11g
networking card.  I was thinking that I could setup the laptop as a wireless access point so I wouldn't have to buy a different router.  The problem, as I see it, is that the Linksys card does not have native Linux drivers and that I would need to use ndiswrapper to get it working.  My knowledge of wireless networking is not that good, but from what I can tell at the ndiswrapper home page (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net), I can only use ad hoc and managed mode, not master.  Anyone know if it is possible
to set up a wireless access point using this hardware?

Thanks for the advice.

Doug Bridges
Alston & Bird LLP



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