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    How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )

    On my laptop I have a wireless connection to the internet.

    Can I share this connection with my desktop computer ? i am using ubuntu 9.10


    and can you please tell me whats the difference between xubuntu, kubuntu and ubuntu ??

    did not see it anywhere

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    Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )

    Quote Originally Posted by ibrahim.k View Post
    and can you please tell me whats the difference between xubuntu, kubuntu and ubuntu ??

    did not see it anywhere
    Here is the wikipedia version. There's a more "official" version I'm still trying to locate.
    Another description.
    Maybe this is the one I was thinking of...
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    Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )

    Thank you Iowan that was use full still the Internet connection thing

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    Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )

    Quote Originally Posted by ibrahim.k View Post
    On my laptop I have a wireless connection to the internet.

    Can I share this connection with my desktop computer ? i am using ubuntu 9.10


    and can you please tell me whats the difference between xubuntu, kubuntu and ubuntu ??

    did not see it anywhere
    Xubuntu uses a lighter interface for older machines
    Kubuntu uses KDE instead of gnome for the desktop environment
    Ubuntu is the default distribution using Gnome for the desktop environment.


    Personally I prefer Gnome.

    I have never setup internet connection sharing on ubuntu but here is the documentation:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...nectionSharing

    http://www.ubuntugeek.com/sharing-in...in-ubuntu.html
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    Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )

    Thank you zaphod I will try it

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    Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )

    Let me know how it goes I can try and help with general network troubleshooting if needed.

    I can also try and test it here if you run into too much trouble.
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    Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )

    Reading this article was too much for me I didn't understand most of the things since I am not that professional user thank you in advance zaphod

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    Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )

    After some hunting around I found two articles that I was looking for yesterday they both look pretty good and not as confusing.

    this one is for sharing a wired connection

    http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/2008/...ion-on-ubuntu/

    this one is for creating a wireless network for the other machine to use.

    http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/2009/...sly-on-ubuntu/
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    Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )

    OMG !!!! I feel stupid after seeing this two threads I found out that current settings for my ethernet connection are not the way it should be
    before:
    192.168.10.1
    255.255.255.0
    192.168.10.1
    now
    192.168.10.1
    255.255.255.0
    0.0.0.0
    and I can use wireless and wired connection at the same time thank you zaphod and according to the ICS it didn't work I will try doing it once again thnx again

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    Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )

    If this question has already been answered I couldn't find it but a link would be welcomed.

    Here goes:

    I have an ancient laptop with a broken screen that I would like to use as a wireless Internet receiver. I want it to receive Internet over a usb wireless nic (wlan0) and share it along with dhcp and dynamic ip addressing service through it's built in nic (eth0) to the rest of my network via a 4 port Ethernet switch with an up-link port (it is just a dummy switch, it doesn't do dhcp or anything else like that). I have followed the instructions from the link shown above. Here is my difficulty; If I connect eth0 to a regular port on the switch firestarter starts up just fine and reports no errors, however in order to share the Internet out to the rest of my network I believe I need to plug into the up-link port and this causes firestarter to tell me "Failed to start firewall, the device eth0 is not ready...." as if it was completely disconnected. I have been using a newish (windows vista) laptop that belongs to my work to get to the internet up to this point and everything works ok with it hooked to the up-link port on the switch using m-sft's ics. I had hoped that I could just slip this ubuntu machine in in it's stead but I am stymied.

    This might be just a basic networking problem and not an Ubuntu issue at all, but as I said, it works somehow with my current setup but the ubuntu laptop just won't do it. I am not a particularly command line savvy person which is why I'm trying to use firestarter, so if this can be explained without a long series of command line references I'll love Ubuntu forever, if not I'll just like Ubuntu as a friend and try to muddle through somehow. Any help at all will be welcome.

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