How to connect a wired desktop to a wireless notebook?
Hi
I have a dsktop with a wired connection to the internet and it has also a wireless interface that is not working on on 2.6.29 or above. Wireless is intersil prism54 with isl3890 and 1sl3886. I would like to transfer (and look to) files on the laptop from my desktop. How can I do that using the wired connection (since the wireless currently fails) (both on slack 13.0 and zenwalk 6.2) I have a linksys wireless router. Any ideas? Marcel |
It shouldn't matter that one uses wired and the other wireless, as long as you can connect both to the router and get IP addresses assigned. Here's what I would do...
Get both systems connected to the router. Determine the IP address of the laptop using the following command Code:
ifconfig | grep 'inet addr' | grep -v 127.0.0.1 Code:
scp username@laptop-ip:/path/to/file/on/laptop/file.txt . Hope that helps, Ken |
Thank you Ken this works!
Never until now had the need for scp or using ssh. What if I would like to browse the laptop computer to sse it's contents and the other partitons on that laptop? Greetings marcel |
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Thank you Settntrenz.
I now managed to use gftp, gvfs and ssh amongst other things. I whole new connected world is opening up for me. I trying to find out what effectively will transfer my pics (+5000) fastest. I can do gftp (seems not so fast), scp or maybe even rsync but also copy entire directories using gvfs any idea what can be the fastest for file transfer? Greetings Marcel |
If you use KDE, you can use the fish:/ protocol in konqueror to browse the remote computer graphically. Split konqueror into two panes, and you can drag and drop files from one computer to another one.
You could also share the directory with your pictures using Samba or NFS. This would be faster. Ssh is great for temporarily accessing files on a remote computer that are in directories that you don't want shared. |
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