ive been dickin round with setting up a wireless network for a month now and i guess im just to stupid to get it right and i wuz wonderin if you guys/gals could help me. ok heres wht im doin and wht with. i got 2 LINKSYS WMP11 PCI CARD and 1 LINKSYS WUSB11 ver. 2.5 USB ADAPTER. ive got three computers as you probly guessed, all under windows 98 SE, and all computers are within 100ft. of each other. ok wht i wanna do is use the WMP11 PCI card as a gateway and the other two as access points. im gunna use wingate to split up the connection. now i wuz wonderin if i could do this with wht i got. any advise would be greatly appriciated.

Since you don't already have an access point, you are going to need to setup an ad-hoc (peer2peer) wireless network, this is opposite of infrastructure mode where on uses an access point.

The machine you want to use as a gateway should obviously have a wired NIC for the internet connection and the wireless PCI card for the home network.

Can you even get the wireless cards working? If not, you must read up because not many people here are going to run you through hardware setup step by step.

Once the network cards are running, set them into ad-hoc mode and set a common SSID (the same SSID for every machine). I would suggest setting up WEP as well but maybe you dont care about security.

You would use wingate as normal however, you would need to specify that the NIC is external and the PCI WLAN is internal. I dont know much about setting up wingate so you'll have to figure that out yourself or get someone that knows...

ok i think i get wht yur sayin ill the only problem i think im gunna have is with wingate. thanx man

Do note that WEP slows your throughput. If you're not too worried about security, just leave encryption off, and put good passwords on your shares.