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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:28:26PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> udhcpc eth0?  Then I ifconfig the resulting IP number and am online?
> No gw if this is only one network.

eth0 is unlikely to be the name by which your kernel identifies your wireless 
interface. So, 
I doubt you'd use that. In my case, my wireless interface (on my Ubuntu 
system with 2.6.x 
kernel) is identified as ra0 by the kernel. I've seen wlan0 as a kernel name 
for a wireless 
interface as well, and I'm almost sure there are others. So, udhcpc ra0 or 
udhcpc wlan0 (or 
whatever name your kernel identifies your wireless interface as). 

> Wondering if I can skip the wireless pcmcia and use the router instead to 
> pick up a county-wide wireless signal and pass it along to my local 
> network via the ethernet ports, assigning my computers all something on 
> the same network (change the last part of the IP number).

You want the router to act as a client, then, not as a router. Some wireless 
routers will do 
this (like the travel router I posted on earlier), others will if you replace 
their firmware 
with more capable firmware (like the WRT54G, for which several Linux firmware 
distributions 
exist). I can't say if any of this Linux firmware would work with yours. Take 
a look at the 
Seattle wireless site, you might find some info there. Be aware that there's 
always a risk 
of "bricking" your router (turning it into a doorstop) when you load this 3rd 
party firmware 
onto it--if it will even work with the ones you have.

James