On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 13:50, andy at theasis.com wrote: > What do you mean by base station? > I have orinoco cards in both my laptops and also in the firewall box -- > which connects to both my wired and wireless networks and routes their > traffic through the net connections. > I'm still reading stuff about 802.11, but I want to setup a box to act as a firewall between a wireless net and my wired net, and route traffic accordingly. Sounds like what you mention above. Which drivers are you using for your orinoco cards (orinoco_cs?) > With 2.2.X kernels I used Prism chipset cards. The linux-wlan project, > http://www.linux-wlan.com/, has drivers for PrismII cards for both 2.2 and > 2.4 kernels. They also have a mailing list. > I looked at the linux-wlan project but it looked like I couldn't do what I wanted (http://www.cafwap.net/prism2ap/). Maybe I don't need to do this though. When I setup the "firewall" and laptop, I was able to get the cards identified and configured. I got the IPs assigned and everything but I couldn't ping through the wifi interface. (iwconfig and ifconfig seemed to be ok...but I don't have much to base it off of). Can you point me to any good doco for setting up a network like you mention at the top? Looking aound I have seen messages saying that the support for Prism cards is not as good as Orinoco cards and that is why I was asking about using them. I have been looking at both the orinoco driver and the linux-wlan driver and haben't found anything wonderfull yet. Dave