OT: Shared Connetion

[DeonH]

Hi there,

I know my question is way off topic, but I need your help & suggestions and do not know where else to put them:

I'm trying to help my brother setup his wireless network and hope you
can help me out.

Windows XP Prof with SP2
Gigabyte GN-A11G wireless Access Point (hub)

I only have a little bit experience on my wireless DSL Router's setup
and am not very familiar with this.

I have connected the AP with the supplied cable to the PC's ethernet
card. And from here I am sort of stuck. The PC sees the AP after I have
changed this new network connection's IP Address to 192.168.1.1

What we hope to establish is for this PC to share it's resources
wireless to 2 Laptops with built in wireless connections. This PC has
ISDN Internet which is set to share, but neither of the Laptops can
"see" this PC nor it's Shared Internet Connection or Printer.

I trust that someone out there will be able to assist me here.

The manual on this wireless hub isn't very clear as what to do and what
should happen after whatever has been done.

Thanx for your help!

Or someone can just point me to the right direction/newsgroup.

Regards & thanx again!

Deon

 

[Obelix]

1) xp firewall on or off? ( permissions need to be given to machines that are allowed through the firewall )
2) can the notebooks ping the pc ? This is the most basic test. If they cant ping each other then nothing else is gonna work either.
3) does the access point have a connection log of some sort, and does that log show that the notebooks are connecting to it ?

 

[DeonH]

Thanx,
I will try out your suggestions.

Deon

 

[Tinuva]

Doesnt the AP have its own built in DHCP server, and maybe it has its own ip as 192.168.1.1 ?? That sometimes seem to be the default...

Try to find out what the AP's IP is and work from there on out with the rest of the IPs. Obviously this wont work with winxp's builtin internet sharing...you will need something else like wingate or winroute to do it now...

Your setup is more complicated than you actually think. But you should be able to figure it out.