Having had problems getting a Belkin 54g wireless card to work, I dumped it
and got a Netgear MA311. On booting (Mandrake 9.1) I ignored the offer to
configure the card, intending to do it manually. Googling had told me that
the orinoco_pci driver works well enough and it was already installed.
I configured the card using the DrakConnect utility in Mandrake Control
Center, then used iwconfig to set up the essid, mode and channel. Up came
the essid on my Dell Axim Pocket PC and I could connect to it. A quick
visit to the DrakGw utility to set up connection sharing and I had full
internet access. [I could have posted this from the Axim, but it's too much
like hard work!] It was all a lot easier than I'd expected. Next stop is to
set up network shares.
At one point DrakGw asked me to select which LAN I wanted to allow to
connect to the Internet. I should point out that I have eth0 (on DHCP)
connected to my cable modem, eth1 (192.168.0.1) not connected at the moment
but soon to connect over wire to another PC, and eth2 (192.168.0.2) is the
wireless card (the Ax is 192.168.0.3).
Does anyone know what DrakGw is doing behind the scenes (presumably setting
up routing, forwarding and NAT, but what are the details) so that I can
allow my 2nd PC (192.168.0.4) to access the Internet? (I'm still a relative
novice when it comes to networking...)
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Garry Knight
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