So just to clarify, if you have a Wireless Router with Built in Broadband modem, and a PC card for the laptop, you'd be able to use the laptop to connect to the internet with broadband from a different room from where the Router is???
that is correct and also using this method you have a hardware fiewall running 24/7 and you don't have to have both computers on to share broadbamd connection although it is slightly more expensive. I use a netgear dg384 router and netgear wg511 54 MPS PCMCIA card. works 100% perfect