Can Eircom Netopia Router be used as a Wireless adapter?

mjsmyth

i have a friend who has Eircom Broadband installed. The wirless works fine and his laptop has no problems accessing it, even down the end of the garden in his workshop.

He has a desktop PC (running ME) in the workshop that he would like broadband on and for various reasons, he does not want to run a cable.

I have a spare Netopia Router, can that be configured to work as a wireless netork adapter? If so, how? I took a look at the setup, but did not see anything.

I know I could simply go out and buy another wireless adapter for the PC, but it seems a waste not to try and reuse exisiting spare equipment.

Thanks,
mj

BaconZombie

No, the Netopia does not support "Client-Mode".

Most will not support "Client-Mode" out-of-the-box, have a look at DD-WRT it's a custom linux OS that you can flash onto some Router (will not work with Netopia)...

http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/index.php

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

mjsmyth

Thanks, I guess it is off to the shop for me then!

You are not living up to your name by giving information out that easily

mj