[mythtv-users] URGENT: Edgy as temp router

[Kevin Kuphal]

GyroTech wrote:
> I have a bit of an urgent request...
> Recently, an engineer really screwed someone up and cut my cable line so 
> I no longer have broadband access. My neighbor has allowed me to 
> temporarily use his wifi network while my ISP gets on to repairing mine.
>
> My laptop is great, but I need my wire-only desktop to grab some 
> internet access too. Is it possible to use my Edgy laptop as a makeshift 
> wifi access portal easily?? The wifi card connects happily to the doner 
> network, and I can get the laptop and desktop to talk to each other over 
> a crossover cat5 cable, but what I really need is for the desktop to 
> pass through the ethernet port onto the wifi network, getting it's own 
> dhcp and such rather than installing a dhcp and dns servers on the laptop.
>
> Is this possibly to do quickly and in an easily reversible manner??
>   
Can't you just boot from one of those CD-ROM based linux router project 
type distributions that has this kind of support out of the box?  I 
guess maybe the wireless could be a little hinkey in that setup though.

Kevin