I wonder if the following is possible and how do I go about it?

[simon.ferre]

Hi

Apologies if this seems to be a simple question that's been answered
several times before, but I've certainly not seen an answer that fully
answers my particular query.

Right, here's my current setup:

I have a Netgear wireless router connected to the internet (dynamic IP
address). This includes firewall, dhcp etc.

Connected to this router, on ip address range 192.168.0.100 to
192.168.0.120 using dhcp, I have:

Using RJ45 cable:
Windows 2000 Server
Debian based Linux server

Using wireless protocol:
Windows 2000 Desktop on a self-built PC (1Ghz)
Windows ME on a Time 8375 Laptop (1.4 Ghz)

Now, the Time 8375 laptop has not only a wireless PC/MCIA card, but
also a built-in RJ45 connector.

This laptop is situated away from the Router (hence the wireless
requirement), but is often used alongside a second laptop (this second
one's ancient - a Toshiba with a Pentium 133 which can not support a
PC/MCIA wireless card) running a debian based Linux system (Damn Small
Linux). This second laptop has a Xircom Network/Modem PC/MCIA card
installed.

Now my question concerns adding the Toshiba laptop to the rest of the
network to enable it to connect to other resources on the network and
to access the internet.

I thought I would simply have to connect a crossover cat5 cable, set up
internet connection sharing (ICS) on the Time laptop and that would be
it, but once I had plugged in the crossover cable and had the ICS
running, I found that I couldn't even access the internet from the Time
laptop anymore. I have since uninstalled ICS so as to get internet
access back.

One final thing I did do, was to set the IP address of the inbuilt
network adaptor in the Time laptop to 192.168.1.102 (whereas the
wireless card gets set to 192.168.0.x via dhcp), and set the IP address
on the Toshiba laptop to 192.168.1.130, both with subnet mask
255.255.255.0, however I couldn't ping one from the other in either
direction.

I know it's probably to do with setting routing tables, but that's as
far as my limited knowledge goes.

Now I'm at a standstill, with no idea what to do next.

Anyone's assistance would be really helpful.

Many thanks

Simon

 

[Charlie Tame]

If you use ICS the IP address of the network adapter connected to the other
computer must be 192.168.0.1

This means the other machine is on 192.168.0.something and ICS will allocate
one or tolerate a fixed one IIRC.

The gateway and DNS settings on the other machine should also point to
192.168.0.1 I think but maybe DNS could be different. It is a while since I
did this.

If the wireless system is using 192.168.0.xxx then it's likely 1 will be the
router I think, that may be upsetting ICS too.

I don't know if this helps any, been so long I should probably have kept
quiet

Charlie