setting up onboard wireless as AP

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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?
 
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
 
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.
 
Why would you not consider Vista's "Sync Center?

Robert J. Schesel said:
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.
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