WiFi question - easiest way to connect non-WiFi hardware to WiFi?

[Jeffrey Gray]

Well, I think that it was wireless bridge adapters that we used to
connect to the ethernet on xboxes to get them wireless but it's been
years.  Could this easily be taken care of by getting a wifi sip based
phone and setting it up on the wireless?

-Jeff Gray

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Dave Woyciesjes
<woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>>
>> While this is not a specifically Ubuntu/Linux question I suspect the
>> answers may be subtly different according to the OS one has on computers
>> in the same place.
>>
>> I want to connect a device (a VOIP phone base station) to a WiFi
>> service. The WiFi isn't mine, it's a service provided for customers (of
>> which I am one) at a marina.  I want to get my VOIP phone to talk to the
>> WiFi service.
>>
>> I *think* a WiFi router/access point should be able to do this but it's
>> not really very clear in the Web set-up how this can/should be done. Can
>> anyone offer me some help please.
>>
>> I have the following that I *could* use to connect to the WiFi:-
>>
>>    Speedtouch 716WL wireless router (quite old)
>>    Tenda Wireless-N router model W311R+
>>    Solwise 434T 3G router
>>
>> Of these it feels as if the Tenda W311R+ is the most likely to be able
>> to be configured the way I want.  What I want is to configure the router
>> to be a WiFi 'client' and provide access to the internet from its
>> ethernet LAN connections.
>>
>>
>
>        I do believe what you want to create is a wrieless bridge.
> (I don't completely trst Wikipedia, but this article seems to be right...:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_bridge
>
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