Two network Cards, One PC

[CompDelTechStu]

I was wondering about something that I could do. I am a student technican at my college and we are getting hooked to a T1 ethernet connection and some people can't afford that cards for our network that is wireless.
I am one of the fortunate ones that can afford the card.
The question that I have is can you put two network cards in one PC and sign on to the network with the wireless card and send the information through the normal hardwire network card to the other people on the network that we have between the PC's. Is that possible with Win ME which what I am running and all the others running 98. I am very familiar with PC's and have some knowledge with networking so I will try anything that is nessary to get it done if possible. Thanks

 

[bdux]

Not sure on windows ME but in Windows 95/98 you can set up a different hardware profile under System Properties . Click on Hardware Profiles and copy original profile and then rename it . Name one say wireless ethernet and the other wired ethernet .
Reboot computer - you will get an option of what hardware profile you want . Log in under say wireless and set up network card to use wireless card. Then reboot and log in as wired and set up network card as wired . This option is used for laptops normally that connect to no network at home and then connect via a network card at work .
Be careful of interupts on the network cards that conflicts don't happen .

 

[CompDelTechStu]

I was actually thinking of running them at the same time. Like me being the internet server for them but using the wireless card as my gateway and them using the wired card as the gateway to my wireless connection. Any suggestions on that one?

 

[Comtech]

What you're trying to do (If I understand correctly) is connect to the internet (or the University's LAN) through the wireless, then connect a few other computers through yours, so they too can access the 'net. Right so far?
This is easy, providing you have the LAN in place, and already working.
Set up your computer as host, with the wireless NIC using TCP/IP as default.
Set up ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) on your computer (You'll need win98SE or ME, Wingate, Sygate, or other "sharing" software on the host computer), and then run the install as "client" on all the other machines.
Win ME has this built in, and it creates a diskette that you run on all the client machines to share one connect throught the host machine.
You've got ME on your host already, so just run the ICS program and it will prompt you to make the setup diskette for the clients.

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[CompDelTechStu]

Thanks that's all I wanted to hear and that is exactly what I was asking. Thanks again for the help and hope to be of assistance in the future if possible.