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October 17th 06, 02:44 AM
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setting up onboard wireless as AP
I have an ASUS P5AD2-E Premium Motherboard and in XP I can configure my
onboard wireless as an AP by bridging the wireless and 1 of the LAN connections. (by using a GUI utility) but in vista the only thing that I can do is use my wireless as a network adapter. Is there a way to configure this in vista as in XP? 
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October 24th 06, 12:08 AM
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setting up onboard wireless as AP
You should be able to bridge connections in "Manage Network Connection"
folder, you can access it from Network and Sharing Center. Just select the two interfaces, right click & select Bridge. However, this does not really turn you PC into an AP (neither on Xp nor Vista). However, you can use wireless adhoc network with briding on one machine to provide internet access to another wireless client machine. I assume this is what you're doing. -pekka "Robert J. Schesel" wrote: I have an ASUS P5AD2-E Premium Motherboard and in XP I can configure my onboard wireless as an AP by bridging the wireless and 1 of the LAN connections. (by using a GUI utility) but in vista the only thing that I can do is use my wireless as a network adapter. Is there a way to configure this in vista as in XP?
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October 24th 06, 02:15 PM
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setting up onboard wireless as AP
In XP you can bridge the wireless and 1 of the lan connections of the Mobo to
create an AP (NOT AD-HOC) it is part of the drivers for the wireless. I do not want to connect to my network via wireless...I want to us my pc's wireless capability to create an AP and allow the wireless smart devices to use it to connect. Is this going to be an issue in vista? Or should I try and find non-existant drivers for my wireless device (suppose to be natively supported) and this is not the only wireless issue with vista. I have also tride the same approach with a giga-byte wi-fi pci card that also will run in AP mode in XP but AP mode is not possible in Vista. "Pekka Niikkonen [MSFT]" wrote: You should be able to bridge connections in "Manage Network Connection" folder, you can access it from Network and Sharing Center. Just select the two interfaces, right click & select Bridge. However, this does not really turn you PC into an AP (neither on Xp nor Vista). However, you can use wireless adhoc network with briding on one machine to provide internet access to another wireless client machine. I assume this is what you're doing. -pekka "Robert J. Schesel" wrote: I have an ASUS P5AD2-E Premium Motherboard and in XP I can configure my onboard wireless as an AP by bridging the wireless and 1 of the LAN connections. (by using a GUI utility) but in vista the only thing that I can do is use my wireless as a network adapter. Is there a way to configure this in vista as in XP?
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October 24th 06, 09:29 PM
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setting up onboard wireless as AP
Why would you not consider Vista's "Sync Center?
"Robert J. Schesel" wrote in message ... In XP you can bridge the wireless and 1 of the lan connections of the Mobo to create an AP (NOT AD-HOC) it is part of the drivers for the wireless. I do not want to connect to my network via wireless...I want to us my pc's wireless capability to create an AP and allow the wireless smart devices to use it to connect. Is this going to be an issue in vista? Or should I try and find non-existant drivers for my wireless device (suppose to be natively supported) and this is not the only wireless issue with vista. I have also tride the same approach with a giga-byte wi-fi pci card that also will run in AP mode in XP but AP mode is not possible in Vista. "Pekka Niikkonen [MSFT]" wrote: You should be able to bridge connections in "Manage Network Connection" folder, you can access it from Network and Sharing Center. Just select the two interfaces, right click & select Bridge. However, this does not really turn you PC into an AP (neither on Xp nor Vista). However, you can use wireless adhoc network with briding on one machine to provide internet access to another wireless client machine. I assume this is what you're doing. -pekka "Robert J. Schesel" wrote: I have an ASUS P5AD2-E Premium Motherboard and in XP I can configure my onboard wireless as an AP by bridging the wireless and 1 of the LAN connections. (by using a GUI utility) but in vista the only thing that I can do is use my wireless as a network adapter. Is there a way to configure this in vista as in XP?
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