[olug] Wireless bridge

[Sam Tetherow]

What is the unit?  It sounds like it is a WAP and not a true bridge if 
it is giving out DHCP addresses.

    Sam Tetherow

Abraham Serafino wrote:
> Does anyone have experience setting up an ethernet/wifi bridge device on a
> desktop? I am too far from the wireless router at home to get much of a
> signal on my desktop computer, so I bought a device which purports to bridge
> two networks - with a wifi antenna on one end and an ethernet jack on the
> other. It has software for Windows, but I couldn't get it configured either
> there or under Linux.
>
> Supposedly it has a web server running on it when it's plugged in, and
> functions much like a router, serving up DHCP to the host that plugs into
> it... but I can't reach the device over my wired network from Ubuntu. I've
> searched the boards, searched Google, but I just can't seem to find anything
> about how to get this little mother working. Plenty of advice for turning a
> laptop into a wireless bridge, but when it comes to this there is just
> silence.
>
> Thanks!
> Abraham Serafino
> email: abrahams at teknohazard.com
> homepage: http://www.teknohazard.com/blog
>
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