Hi! So I'm sitting here with my girlfriend, both of us have laptops yet there is only one hardline in my dorm room..

I was wondering if by some mechanism we could achieve a network with the following layout:


Girlfriend's Laptop
(WinXPPro)
Wifi card: Broadcom 54g Maxperformance 802.11g
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My laptop
Gentoo running 2.6.10 Kernel
My wifi card
Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG - working fine with IPW2200 Drivers
Somehow transfer signal over to my eth card:
Broadcom Corp NetXtreme BCM5705

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my internet hardline.


If anyone has any ideas or solutions on how to accomplish this networking feat, I would be greatly appreciated.

As you have no doubt realized, I am basically trying to turn my laptop into a secure wireless router for my girlfriend ^ ^!

Thanks so much!

Ryan

You could certainly do it if you'd like.

The Advanced Linux Routing and Traffic Control How-To will help you. With Linux you can route between any interfaces. You also might want to look at the HostAP page. HostAP is a wireless driver that has some special stuff for running Access Points with linux.