[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Connect desktop to wireless using a hub?

[Leroy Tennison]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Richard:
>
> That is exactly what I am talking about.
>
> I have an old Hawking WA300 Access Point
> which I should be able to do the same thing with.
>
> What settings did you have to put on your WAP54G?
>
> Thanks,
> 	Neil 
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
> Of Richard Geoffrion
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:41 AM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Connect desktop to wireless using a hub?
>
> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>   
>> Hello:
>>
>> Since a wireless hub connects an ethernet on one side to
>> a wireless network on the other, is it possible to 
>> connect a desktop machine to a hub to enable it to
>> get onto the wireless network?
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> I know not of this "wireless hub" of which you speak, but I have 
> connected a desktop to a WAP54G ...which in turn communicated with a 
> WRT54G and thus the rest of the 'wired' network.
>
>   
I haven't done wireless so this may be way off base but what kind of 
Ethernet cable does the wireless device require: straight through or 
crossover (and is that what you are using)?