Make my laptop a Wireless Access point

[erroneus]

I'm in Japan, at the moment (which is not home) and my Blackberry is supposed to be able to make phone calls using WiFi. However, I cannot do that at the moment. There's no WiFi that I can access from here.

My laptop, however, does have a wireless network device. "iwl4965" is the device. It works properly as a wireless client.

So what I'd like to do, without being too destructive, is to set up a wireless bridge using my laptop so that I can use my blackberry to make voice calls.

Would anyone have any suggestions on how I could make this happen?

[stevea]

Well for a start you'll need to your your wifi interface into "Ad-Hoc" or "Master" mode. See the iwconfig man page, then see if the mode setting command even works for your driver. I've scanned the web and I doubt your iwl4965 supports Ad-Hoc. Unlikely it supports Master either (my guess) but best of luck.

-S

[drhilbert]

I'm also interested in the subject! I have a ipw2200 wifi card and I'm using networkmanager to configure it. From the nm-applet I can create a new wifi connection but how can I bride the wifi to the ethernet so that people connecting to me can go out on the web?

cheers,
toto

[Anniedog]

I'm also interested in the subject! I have a ipw2200 wifi card and I'm using networkmanager to configure it. From the nm-applet I can create a new wifi connection but how can I bride the wifi to the ethernet so that people connecting to me can go out on the web?

cheers,
toto

You will need to download the bridge utils package. It is from there that you can make a bridge between the wifi eth and the ethernet port. It is from my memory very simple to do in the terminal. You will need to search for these as it is a long time ago since I used them and read the man/info pages. I wanted at that time to make an wireless access point but I just could not get this to work with my wifi card , though this was back in the days of FC6.

Edit
drhilbert
If I am correct you are hard wired to your isp's modem. If this is the case and all else fails the easiest way is to invest in a wireless modem/router. The only down side on this I have had is with my netgear is that an old XP laptop wifi card will not run the WPA security so I had to invest in an USB wireless card for that machine. Though running WEP would work (not advised).