Hi all,

 

I've spent an unreasonable amount of time trying to get this to work with no success:

 

PC1 has a Linksys wireless pci card (WMP600N) installed and Windows 7.

 

PC2 has unRAID and an onboard NIC. It is connected to a Netgear (WG602) access point.

 

I've messed around with ad hoc networking and routing, but I'm not that confident with Linux so I couldn't get it to work.

 

Please help!

 

You're using the WG602 as a bridge right?  Can you see the WG602 from PC1?  Ping it, get to it's embedded web page, stuff like that?  If the bridge isn't setup correctly you will never get to the unraid server behind it.  

 

And why are you using a bridge anyway?  What kind of router\switch do you have?  Is it far away from where you are storing your unraid box?  Are you out of wired ports on it? 

Hello TSM, thanks for your reply!

 

I got this to work in the meantime. I wasn't using the access point as a bridge, it was just set up as access point. The problem was that i didn't set the IP address on the unRAID machine to be in the same network as the one on the other machine. Once I changed that I could connect to unRAID just fine. The speed wasn't all that much though at 3.5 MB/s, so now I bought another Linksys adapter in the hope I can connect the two machines together in ad-hoc mode.

 

The reason I'm not using wire is because I don't want to pull cat cables across my apartment and I'm not too concerned about speed. If I can get anything > 20 MB/s that would be just great.

 

Getting these cards to work properly in ad-hoc mode is turning out to be a bit of a chore though. I'll likely end up using windows 7 on both machines if I can get them to connect at a decent speed.

 

I did get the setup to work on windows 7 + ubuntu/samba and it gave me 11-12 MB/s which isn't that bad really. Window 7 + XP did not work out at all if anyone is interested.

 

Anyhow, just posting this out of politeness as I will likely move to a different OS combination now.