first i need to find a wireless network card that will work with linux. after that i would like to take a shared wireless signal and put it into the linux box, and turn that into a firewall. then plug that into another wireless router and use that as both a web server and mail server. i have no idea how to setup the servers at all. any help would hep greatly. thanks

spoudumen

Hi,

I'm not clear about what you want to do from your description.

For a wireless network card, there is a site (can't remember where) that lists the ones that work. My AirWay pcmcia card works fine with Mandrake 9.1, for example.

At that stage you have a Linux computer which is on a network and, presumably, a wireless router of some sort that it talks to.

Are you saying you then want to use this server as a web server and mail server? If so, you need to give details of what you want. However, there is a huge amount of information on the web about setting up a web server (e.g. with Apache) and a mailserver (e.g. with sendmail or other simpler packages) so it might be worth taking a look at those first.

Iain.