Connecting a Vista laptop to the iMac's wi-fi?

[sausemans]

Hello,

I'm sure this has been asked here before, but..

How do I connect a Windows Vista laptop to an iMac's wireless internet connection?

[Veritas&Equitas]

You can't use an iMacs wireless card with a Vista laptop. They are completely different connections? The iMac isn't producing a signal, just receiving one.

You need to hook up your Vista laptop to the wireless router producing the WiFi signal, not the iMac.

[mkrishnan]

If you mean that you want to try and share an ethernet-connected network wirelessly using the iMac, you go to system preferences -> sharing -> internet. Select the share from as "built-in ethernet" and to computers using "Airport." Click on the options button and specify the options, and then click on the start button inside the window.

There are a number of limitations to this approach, though. If you want to do it frequently, you are much, much better off buying a cheap Wifi router.