[LUAU] Re: Linux networking

[Jim Thompson]

seems to me that the 'right thing' (tm) is to have the "router" plugged 
into the cable modem (on the uplink port),
and then plug the media center PeeCee into the other Ethernet port(s) 
on the router, then use 802.11/WiFi/wireless for
the other computers (including the linux one.)

However, the Belkin f5d7000 is a Broadcom chipset based card, so you 
will need driverloader or ndiswrapper (free (as in beer and speech))
(or similar), since no native x86 linux driver has been released for 
the Broadcom chipset.

driverloader
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/

ndiswrapper
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

see also:
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20040507104718960
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/262318


Presuming that you've done this (or the Belkin software has done it for 
you), then the dhcp client should have added the requisite routes,
either directly, or potentially as a result of configuring an IP 
address on the interface.  You should have a route to the 'local' 
network.  If you don't you can try to add one with something like:

route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev wlan0

or similar.

In truth, FC3 should have something like this:
# Wireless NDIS Wrapper Config
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=
ONBOOT=no
TYPE=Wireless
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
MODE=Managed
ESSID=''
CHANNEL=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
NETMASK=
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
GATEWAY=
IPV6INIT=no
RATE=Auto

in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0


Jim
from Costa Mesa, CA, but on my way back to Kailua in the morning, and 
incidentally 'sharing' the "broadband" in the room off my PowerBook 
with
my wife's XP notebook.  No linux, but still... Heh heh.


On Dec 27, 2004, at 7:06 PM, webmaster at hawaiidakine.com wrote:

> Gurus on the LUAU List..
>
> Could somebody please assist with this request since I am not an XP 
> person and Fedora guys on this list know a lot more Linux than I do 
> since I am a FreeBSD user.
>
> Thanks,  Al Plant...
> ^
> ^
> ^
> William H. Jones II wrote:
>> Capt. Al,
>>  I was on the internet looking at some local linux pages (HOSEF, 
>> MPLUG, etc...) and I came across your site.  Noticing that you are a 
>> webmaster, I thought you may be able to answer a networking question 
>> of mine.  I've tried to look at the documentation, but it's still 
>> very confusing for me.  I am currently emloying a wired-wireless 
>> network.  In windows (XP Pro and Media Center), everything works fine 
>> and all computers can "see" each other.  However, in Linux, it's a 
>> different story.  We are currently sharing a cable internet 
>> connection.  Basically, my brother-in-law has the computer with MS 
>> Media Center.  His computer is connected to the cable modem and the 
>> D-Link DI-624 wireless router.  My desktop computer, running both 
>> Windows XP Pro and Fedora Core 3, has a Belkin F5D7000 wireless 
>> adapter with the Hawkings Technology HST-1 range extender.  My 
>> laptop, also running Windows XP Pro and Fedora Core 3, has a D-Link 
>> DWL-G650.
>>  I can access the internet using either OS, but am having problems 
>> understand how to implement networking under Linux.  It should pretty 
>> much be the same across most LInux distros, although BSD is most 
>> likely different.  My question is this: do I simply need to add a 
>> route to the other computer running Linux (the router assigns static 
>> IPs to both computers via DCHP)?  In other words, can I simply do the 
>> following:?
>> route add -host <IP of other computer> wlan0
>> or would I have to do something else?  I guess I could just go ahead 
>> and try it, but wanted to ask someone in advance, in case I screwed 
>> anything up.
>> Thanks in advance for your reply,
>> William Jones
>> BSCS at HPU (they only teach Windows) :(
>> US Navy, Retired (22 years)
>
>
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