linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Home networking with mint 8 ... problems

--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, J <dreadpiratejeff@...> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 17:08, grantrocket2 <mars_rover@...> wrote:
> > I am running mint 8 on a old computer. I put a wireless network card in it in the hopes that
> > mint would be able to take the internet from my sprint mobil broadband card and broadcast
> > it so more than one computer can be online. Only thing is, i can't get it to work. The
> > wireless card works, and the sprint card works and connects to the internet. How can i get
> > the internet to be shared over the network. I also wish to share the hardrive as a network
> > drive. I will be connecting windows laptops and my linux laptop as well. Thanks in advance.
> ~~~Wireless LAN Access Point Controller

ChilliSpot is an open source captive portal or wireless LAN access point
controller. It supports web based login which is today's standard for
public HotSpots and it supports Wireless Protected Access (WPA) which
is the standard of the future. Authentication, Authorization and
Accounting (AAA) is handled by your favorite radius server.

Read more on http://www.chillispot.info

> Need more info. How do you know your wireless card works? Can it
> ping and connect to other machines on your network? Is the problem
> only that you can't get out onto the internet? What's your network
> setup? Are you using an off the shell router? Are you using a system
> as a firewall/router? Are you using a NAT setup? There are quite a
> few variables to "Why doesn't my computer get on the internet?"
>
> As for the other thing... do some research in configuring NFS and
> Samba. NFS is the *nix protocol for remote mounting filesystems.
> Samba is the Linux version of the Windows protocol and lets your
> Windows systems mount disks on a Linux machine, as well as doing
> printer sharing and so forth.
> ~~~I have an old several 4gb ATA IDE( Old IMB Thinkpad Hard Drives) via usb connector( Found at Goodwill for 3 dollars when A new one is around $50 but now theres Usb conectors for SATA out there too) hooked windoze machine in network rest the house use it for certain doc or pics great deal to use old ATA IDE Drive why let them go to waste.

> So look those up, see how far you get, and come for help when/if you
> get stuck :-)
>
> Cheers
> Jeff
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