Wireless router as Wireless NIC

Is it possible to set Wireless router to work as plain wireless network
card? I have Linux on one PC, and it doesn't recognize my WLAN card. I would
like to connect that Linux PC with UTP cable to one router and make that
router work as wireless NIC. I tried WDS but it eats too much bandwidth.

Tnx

joe wrote:
> Is it possible to set Wireless router to work as plain wireless network
> card? I have Linux on one PC, and it doesn't recognize my WLAN card. I would
> like to connect that Linux PC with UTP cable to one router and make that
> router work as wireless NIC. I tried WDS but it eats too much bandwidth.
>
> Tnx
>
>

It would depend on the router. I have a Buffalo WHR-G54S with DD-WRT
third party firmware installed and it has a mode called

Client Bridged mode – The radio interface is used to connect the LAN

side of the router to a remote access point. The LAN and the remote AP

will be in the same subnet (This is called a "bridge" between two

network segments). The WAN side of the router is unused and can

be disabled. Use this mode, e.g., to make the router act as a

"WLAN adapter" for a device connected to one of its LAN ethernet ports.


If your router has this mode then yes you can.


Danny,

Danny Kile wrote:
> It would depend on the router. I have a Buffalo WHR-G54S with DD-WRT
> third party firmware installed and it has a mode called
>
> Client Bridged mode – The radio interface is used to connect the LAN
>
> side of the router to a remote access point. The LAN and the remote AP
>
> will be in the same subnet (This is called a "bridge" between two
>
> network segments). The WAN side of the router is unused and can
>
> be disabled. Use this mode, e.g., to make the router act as a
>
> "WLAN adapter" for a device connected to one of its LAN ethernet
> ports.
>
> If your router has this mode then yes you can.
>


My Canyon router has these modes:

AP
AP bridge-point to point
AP bridge-point to multi-point
AP bridge-wds

Is this "AP bridge point to point" mode you're talking about?


I also have Asus WL500g but it looks that it needs some custom firmware that
is complicated to use.

joe <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Is it possible to set Wireless router to work as plain wireless network
> card? I have Linux on one PC, and it doesn't recognize my WLAN card. I
> would like to connect that Linux PC with UTP cable to one router and make
> that router work as wireless NIC.

Not many WLAN cards are recognized by stock Linux distributions, but some
are supported by downloadable drivers. I have recently liked various
vendors' cards with Atheros chipsets on Redhat distributions.

What card do you have? Does it show up in lspci?

If you have a working wired NIC, you should be able to plug it into a Game
Adapter.

Other than that, some routers have a client mode, but not many.

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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Not many WLAN cards are recognized by stock Linux distributions, but
> some are supported by downloadable drivers. I have recently liked
> various vendors' cards with Atheros chipsets on Redhat distributions.
>
> What card do you have? Does it show up in lspci?
>
> If you have a working wired NIC, you should be able to plug it into a
> Game Adapter.
>
> Other than that, some routers have a client mode, but not many.

I have Canyon CN-WF511 card. It shows up as Ralink RT2561/RT61 card and uses
RT61 driver by default (Xandros 4.0 Linux, based on Debian). It can find my
network SSID but when I try to connect I get "Unable to determine interface
to use" message. I'll try to install Xandros 4.1 these days.

I tried to make it work with ndiswrapper but with no luck, because drivers
don't have .inf file.

On Tue, 8 May 2007 15:19:18 +0200, "joe" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <f1ptco$8no$(E-Mail Removed)>:

>Danny Kile wrote:
>> It would depend on the router. I have a Buffalo WHR-G54S with DD-WRT
>> third party firmware installed and it has a mode called
>> Client Bridged mode – The radio interface is used to connect the LAN
>> side of the router to a remote access point. The LAN and the remote AP
>> will be in the same subnet (This is called a "bridge" between two
>> network segments). The WAN side of the router is unused and can
>> be disabled. Use this mode, e.g., to make the router act as a
>> "WLAN adapter" for a device connected to one of its LAN ethernet
>> ports.
>>
>> If your router has this mode then yes you can.

>My Canyon router has these modes:
>
>AP
>AP bridge-point to point
>AP bridge-point to multi-point
>AP bridge-wds
>
>Is this "AP bridge point to point" mode you're talking about?

No. You need it to be a _client_ (not a host).

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