How to connect a wired desktop to a wireless notebook?

emgee_1 · 09-07-2009, 07:03 AM

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

kellinwood · 09-07-2009, 09:32 AM

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

Then from the desktop copy files using scp

Code:

scp username@laptop-ip:/path/to/file/on/laptop/file.txt .

Replace 'username' with the user on the laptop system, replace 'laptop-ip' with the IP address, and /path/to/file/on/laptop/file.txt with an actual path to a file you want to copy. Don't forget to include the '.' at the end, which means copy the file to the current directory on the desktop.

Hope that helps,
Ken

emgee_1 · 09-08-2009, 01:59 AM

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

settntrenz · 09-08-2009, 02:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by emgee_1

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

You can ssh to the other machine, assuming it's a *nix machine, and use command line tools to view directories and partition information. If you want a gui you can use nxserver. If you want to share files between the machines you can implement FTP, NFS, SCP, or Samba.

emgee_1 · 09-08-2009, 04:48 AM

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

jschiwal · 09-09-2009, 06:37 PM

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.