On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 07:34 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > My wife and I live in a two-storey flat, and we have a small home LAN > (100% CentOS 5) with a "classical" configuration: > > On the ground floor, there is the telephone jack with the DSL modem > router (192.168.1.254). This modem has a mini-switch with two Ethernet > jacks to it, and the two are used by: > > - the server (192.168.1.1), a "black box" running in a cupboard 24/7 > - the wireless AP (192.168.1.253) > > Then, on the first floor, everything is connected by wireless, and for > the moment, configured statically: > > - my desktop PC (192.168.1.2) > - my laptop (192.168.1.3) > - my wife's laptop (192.168.1.4) > > I have an older laptop here, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D, that I'd like to > use as a simple build box. It's physically installed next to my desktop > PC. It doesn't have a wireless card, so I vaguely thought: is it somehow > possible to connect this laptop with an Ethernet cable to my desktop > PC's unused Ethernet card, and then connect it to the internet? In that > case, I wonder if I have to bridge the desktop PC's network interfaces > (wlan0 and eth0). That said, I don't even know if the driver for wlan0 > (rt61) allows any bridging. Or maybe simply configure a different > subnet, but then, what would the network configuration look like on the > laptop and on the desktop PC? > > Any suggestions for that? > Unless you really want to spend the time learning the networking configs on CentOS, I'd suggest getting a simple Ethernet to 802.11 bridge. These are commonly called "game adaptors" here in the US.