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Neil Williams wrote: > > A wireless card needs an access point - end of story. Nah http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1451421 If both PCs are in ad-hoc mode with the same ESSID, the two computers should just form a network (think ethernet layer). Alexis may need to statically allocate IP addresses to both ends to create the IP layer. In the Microsoft/Apple world zeroconf will allocate addresses from 169.254/16 range automatically, and Linux will do this if you install the zeroconf packages for your distro. But dynamic IP addresses only work sensibly with network protocols that advertise services dynamically, which some of the Microsoft protocols do, but which may need some configuration (in which case you might as well allocate addresses statically). I use to run Wireless in my own house using ad-hoc mode (any two devices switched on talked to each other - no access point), but these days I just use the ADSL router as it can act as an access point. Simon
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