Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

[Ed H]

I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can my
desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both
connected to my linksys router.
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Ed H
Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP2
60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

New computer: Gateway, Vista Home Premium Sp1

 

[Big Al]

I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can my
desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both
connected to my linksys router.

Yes.

 

[Ed H]

Any links, reading material, how? Can't seem to get it.

 

[Jim]

I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can my
desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both
connected to my linksys router.
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Ed H
Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP2
60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

New computer: Gateway, Vista Home Premium Sp1

I don't know whether yours can or not. However, my desktop (wired ethernet)
and my laptop (wireless) work quite well together.
Jim

 

[Big Al]

Any links, reading material, how? Can't seem to get it.

How much do you know about networking? I have no reference point of
your abilities to start with.

Normally you make a folder on machine A, right click and share it.
Then I would go to machine B and click on network places. There is a
'view workgroup computers'. browse it. Do you see computer A?
If so keep drilling down till you see the folder.
You can right click and drag it to the desktop and make a shortcut or
"map" it to a drive. (I like the shortcut better).

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/homenetworking/a/connecttwocomp.htm
I got this from google by looking for 'how to network 2 computers'.

There are a ton of ways to do this. Its the more than one way to skin a
cat thing.

And a ton of things can stop you, firewall, router, network config.

Do you have file and print sharing turned on?

 

[Big Al]

Any links, reading material, how? Can't seem to get it.

Just as a note. Don't post the same question multiple times. Let
people respond to the first one.

 

[OldDuke]

I don't know whether yours can or not. However, my desktop (wired ethernet)
and my laptop (wireless) work quite well together.
Jim

Get (if you don't already have) a wireless router. Most of them also
have RJ45 ports as well. It will do everything you are asking.

 

[jameshanley39]

I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can my
desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both
connected to my linksys router.

one way is if your linksys router is a so-called Wireless Router
They support wired and wireless (yes, simultaneously)

if it is just a wired router, then you need to connect a "wireless
access point".
That effectively makes it like a so-called Wireless Router.

I don't use wireless.. But I'm a bit of a geek.. Truth is most people
don't know what a Router is. What a switch is.. I knew those basics
from a book called networking first step.. That was all theory. Not
practical at all. But maybe don't bother with that, since you probably
haven't even built your own computer, so you're not that much of a
geek.


It took me a while to figure out how it relates to the things being
sold.. I guess I read one or two usenet posts that made little things
click.. Maybe chatted to a few people on IRC chat.. But unlike that
book I mentioned. The so-called Routers being sold today, are best
termed NAT Routers, and their sockets are not Router sockets, but
Switch sockets (maybe L3 switch).

Understand that with Wired, what they call a Router, means typically
get a NAT Router with a switch built in.
That's your linksys machine with many sockets. Sometimes they have a
modem built in there too. So it's more than just a NAT Router with a
switch.. And it has a DHCP server in there handing out IPs. So it's
alot. It's your typical NAT Router.

Wireless Routers, Are Wired Routers, but they have a wireless switch
built in. A wireless switch is called an "access point".
They also have a wired switch built in, that's the way they get the
many sockets to plug computers into.

So you can built a wireless router by using a wired router and a
wireless access point.

And you need your computers to have a wireless adaptor.. Either built
in or external like PCMCIA or USB. The former should have an antenna.
If going USB, most are sold without antennae, but the one with them
have better range I have heard.

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Ed H
Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP2
60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

New computer: Gateway, Vista Home Premium Sp1

I guess you're not that much of a geek, or you would have built your
own..!

 

[Ed H]

Thanks all. My router is wireless but accepts cable too. I just couldn't
figure out the programming thing. All the wizards were either for a wireless
network or not. But I finally got it going, thanks again.

Ed

 

[jameshanley39]

Thanks all. My router is wireless but accepts cable too. I just couldn't
figure out the programming thing. All the wizards were either for a wireless
network or not. But I finally got it going, thanks again.

Ed

you idiot..

what are you doing asking about books to understand things, if you are
using a wizard.