how to share internet with wireless

[DaiShan]

This is a very newbie question, but I have very little experience with networking. I finally got all of my adapters working (thanks scottmac!) and 2 of my computers are currently sharing the internet as the "tech" from compusa came out and got that configured. Now I want to get the internet on my last pc, it is running win 98 se as is one of the other networked machines, and the final comp is running xp. so any links to how to's, or just info would be greatly appreciated!

 

[JackMDS]

If your system is connected via Cable/DSL Router.

Wireless LAN consists on two main components.

1. Access Point (A/P).

Access Point is the Main Transmitter/Receiver that mediate between your LAN, or main computer, to the rest of the Network.

2. Wireless Client Card.

Wireless network Card is the LAN card that is installed on all the Computers that want to join the Network.

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Most of A/P can control more then 200 computers equipped with Wireless Cards.

The basis of operation and setting on the computers is like regular LAN. The specific setting of the Wireless hardware is included with the Hardware manuals.


You can buy A/P and plug it to your Cable/DSL Router.

You buy a Wireless PCMCIA card, and install it on the Laptop, configure the drivers, and will be connected.

This is an example of an Access Point:

EZ Connect 11Mbps Wireless Access Point.

This is considered to be the best Client Card:

ORiNOCO PC Card - Gold.

 

[DaiShan]

my ip (internal) is 169.254.97.248 I also noted that when I ran winipcfg it doesn't have a default gateway listed on this computer whereas the others the default gateway is 192.168.1.1 (the routers ip address) so I think the 2 things that would be worth trying are to make it have the 192.168.xxx.xxx ip address and to make the default gateway the router, How do I do this? Thanks.

 

[Castellan]

169.254.97.248 is the hardware default IP for your NIC. It isn't detecting the network, or you don't have a DHCP server. Without knowing more about your config, I'll assume you do not have a router or server running dhcp, or that you are not currently running ICS. The best way to tell if you are running DHCP is to go to one of the machines that has a 192.x.x.x address. If it is a 98 box, right click on network neighborhoos and click properties. Choose TCPIP for your network adapter and click properties. On the IP config tab, it has a choice between Specify and IP address and use DHCP.

For XP, right click on "My Network Places" and choose properties. Right click on your network adapter and click properties. Choose "Internet Protocol" and click properties. Note wether it is set for Obtain or specify.

If you are using DHCP, the computer with the hardware default IP is not getting connected to the rest of your network.

If it is set to "Specify", you need to give a unique IP address to the PC with the hardware default IP.

If you need any more help, PM me.