Wireless at Last!
My previous laptop ran Windows 98. Not Windows 98 Second Edition, mind you, but the original. This meant networking was a bit of a pain. Every change of hard-coded IP address meant a reboot. Worse, the original had no native support for wireless networking. It's a fluke I ever got my wireless card to work at all. Correspondingly, I had a lot of trouble with my pocket router, which is impossible to configure if you can't easily switch IP addresses. The situation was made immensely more complicated by a complete lack of overlap of subnets. I use 10.0.0.* at home. My Mother uses 192.168.1.*. The pocket router likes 192.168.0.*. I made things worse at some point by telling the pocket router to use DHCP to obtain its local IP! When I'm in Pittsburgh, I want it to be an access point so I can use my Mother's cable modem. I've managed to get this working a few times, but not recently, and never without a half-hour of hair pulling. Tonight, I did a hardware reset, flashed a newer rev of the firmware, and was able to get it working in about ten minutes. The new laptop made all the difference . . . no endless rebooting! Tomorrow's to-do: see if it will support two clients at once, see if I can make router mode work, and see if router mode will support two clients at once.