Re: using a laptop as an internet access point...

Dan,

If you're running WinXP (possibly only with SP2), you can select both 
network adapters on the Wireless laptop, right-click and choose "Bridge 
connections".

This way, your wireless laptop will function as a simple gateway between 
the wired one and the network.

On the wired laptop, no special settings are necessary.

My advice would be to place a simple hub or switch between both laptops, 
so that you don't need any special cross-over cable.

File sharing would be exactly the same as if both laptops were connected 
directly to the network.

I've done this using Ethernet-to-wireless, and even using 
bluetooth-to-wireless.

HTH,

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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Say I'm in a room in my house with a laptop that has a wireless 
connection.
Add to that another laptop that does not have wireless but has an ethernet
adapter.  Is there a way to run an ethernet cable between the two laptops 
so
that the non-wireless laptop can get online?  Special ethernet cable? Does
WinXP detect this automagically, or is there any manual configuration that
needs to happen?

What if I also would like to copy files from one laptop to the other? 
Could
I use this same connection?

TIA,
Dan