RE: Problems configuring ORiNOCO Silver card

I had intended to try to convey this in my initial message,
but I guess I didn't do a very good job.

I have a laptop (dual boot) that is connected to
a linksys wireless ap/router. That is in turn
connected to my cable modem. My laptop works
in a wired & wireless mode from Windows.
It works in a wired mode from RedHat Linux.
(I'm trying to get that to work wireless as well.)

ifconfig on the linux side shows an IP address
of 192.168.1.100 -- I'm really not sure how that
was assigned. It also has a dynamic
address it gets from DHCP, right now it is
65.33.170.x. I can ping and get to the net
just fine from the linux side.

The AP/router is 192.168.1.1.

I am very new to this network stuff. I thought that
I could have both the laptop and the iPAQ talk to
the AP and then get out to the internet via cable modem.
I'd like the iPAQ to be able to talk to the laptop too.
I thought that this was ok to do. I know that
several people have multiple PCs in their house
configured this way, and this was essentially the
same thing. I may be way wrong...

Is there any way to make this work?

Ellen

>From: "Hicks, Jamey" <Jamey.Hicks@compaq.com>
>To: Ellen Dash <edash_dgi@hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: [Familiar] Problems configuring ORiNOCO Silver card
>Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:36:42 -0500
>
>
>If your laptop and the iPAQ are connected to the same network, then
>192.168.1.1 is not the right gateway for the iPAQ. How was the address
>assigned to the laptop? What is its IP address? What is the network
>gateway it uses?
>
>ah. rr.com. cable modem. rr.com will probably not give addresses via
>DHCP to network interfaces whose MAC addresses are not registered.
>
>What is your network topology?
>
>

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Received on Tue May 22 15:31:41 2001