Having reread Goose's post, I'm not so sure he is not correct. If our WAP dishes dhcp from our wired hub, it might work. The key is the wired hub whether wired or wireless.
Tom Tom Brown wrote:
Unfortunately, the issue with WAPs at the library is DNS or routing. All the laptops could see the routers, ours and the librarys'. We had two Linksys WAPs of our own at FGMLUG last Saturday. One ran dd-wrt, and the other ran stock Linksys OS. Neither WAP would let all of us route outside the library's LAN, all the time. Of 3 laptops, only one could get to the Internet with good speed. If two got to the Net, one laptop was slow as molasses in January. We had three different distros: Puppy, Ubuntu and Vector Linux. Puppy seemed to fare the best.I boosted the debugging value in wicd on my VL laptop to record more information. By the time I began to sift through the log, we ran short of time and decided to abandon wireless at the library so we can devote more time at future meetings to training and support and less to wrestling with the library's broken wireless network. The geek in us wants to solve the problem. However, we don't have the authority to fix the library system, and no library IT people are in the building when we are there.Wired seems to work every time for every machine. Tom Richard Zimmerman wrote:Wireless is NOT an issue in the library. We simply need to take an old WAP (Wireless Access Point) and plug it into the hub being used in the meeting room. Set it to accept an DHCP address and we can either secure it for our use only or leave it open to help others out.IIRC Phil has two of them that I need to address, I've still got the one at work on 'loan' to them, I can recall it and set it up for library use...Just a thought... Goose Mike Cook wrote:I'm sorry I didn't make it to the meeting. I had a last minute crisis Saturday morning.Hubs or switches seem like a good solution. One advantage would be if we wanted to demo setting up networking with Linux we would have all the hardware available. I like meeting at the library as it is a public venue, on a bus route, and most everyone knows where it is. Not so good for wireless though ....Mike** This list is PUBLICLY archived. **PLEASE don't post personal or sensitive information unless you wish for it to be in the public domain.To post to the list send email to frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxThe archive is available at //www.freelists.org/archives/frgeek-michiana/You may unsubscribe or change your list settings by going to the list website at //www.freelists.org/webpage/frgeek-michiana
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