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    wireless connection through laptop

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by wildman_33, Jul 27, 2009.

  1. wildman_33

    wildman_33 Notebook Evangelist

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    i have two laptops on my sek only one of which has wireless. the wireless laptop is connected to my router downstairs. recently when my brothers xbox wireless stopped working we ran his xbox connection through my laptops wireless and his desktops wireless afterwards. i tried the same thing to connect up the laptop i have without wireless which is running ubuntu 9.04 when they connected and i had enabled interent sharing my laptops wireless disconnected and refused to connect till i had restarted windows so i cannot get the internet on the non wireless laptop does anyone know why
     
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    i lost you after your last period.....grammar is your friend.

    If you want help you need to be more clear. Did you set up the xbox arrangement or did your brother? Is this a question of lack of knowledge, or puzzlement that something worked before and does not work now?

    In other words should we be telling you how to do this from square one, or are we troubleshooting a connection you KNOW should work?
     
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  3. wildman_33

    wildman_33 Notebook Evangelist

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    sorry i wasnt very clear

    i had this setup on the xbox before which i set up.

    i am now tryting to do this setup from a laptop without wireless to a laptop with wireless, so instead of the xbox there would be the laptop without wireless connected to the laptop with wireless which is the one running ubuntu.
     
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The short answer is: because you're trying to share a Windows internet connection with a linux box, which means that the computers are not going to do everything for you.

    A quick google brings up a plethora of hits on various linux fora dealing with the same question, so you would probably get an answer, and help, much faster either on a Ubuntu forum, or in the NBR linux forum. From what I can see, you have to first enable internet connection sharing in the Windows machine, and then set up the linux machine with a static IP (although opinions seem to vary on that point, see here and here, for example). You could also work through some of the other hits on that google search, some of which appear to be Ubuntu-specific.
     
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  5. wildman_33

    wildman_33 Notebook Evangelist

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    ok i have just found the wireless usb adapter which is much more convenient now all i have to do is install the drivers for it
     
    wildman_33, Jul 28, 2009
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