Rui Maciel <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>I just bought a laptop and I wanted to have a wireless internet connection
>in my home. I already have broadband internet access (cable) and I run
>linux on my desktop and will run it on my laptop too.
>So, can anyone give some words of advice on how to set a wireless home LAN?
Buy a wireless router. Buy wireless cards for whatever machines you want
wireless to run on (trying tomake sure that they run with Linux).
plug the ethernet cable from the cable box to the input of the router. Plug
your ethernet machines into the ports on the router. Set up the router by
opening a web browser on your PC and going to the address listed in the
wireless router handbook. You will probably want it to run on dhcp, and I
assume you want it to get its address from the broadband by dhcp as well (I
have no idea how your broadband is set up. YOu may have to notify the
broadband company of the mac address of the wireless router. )
Once you have everything working with security on the router, set up WEP on
the router and import the key into all the systems you want to hook up with
wireless (to prevent your neighbors from using your wireless system). But
do this only after you have gotten everything working.
Make sure that you disable administrationof the wireless router from the
internet, and that you write down the new administrator password in the
manual so that in 8 months when you have to change something you do not
discover that you forgot the password. Also make sure that you save all of
the settings for the same reason.
>Thanks in advance
>Rui Maciel
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