I am running into a bit trouble trying to setup connection sharing on an 8.2 system. I have tried using the DrakConf connection sharing wizard but it fails to work for me. In any case, I cannot share the connection in the way it wants to set it up.
I have a modem connection to the internet and a wireless connection between my desktop and laptop. The thing is, my laptop HAS to be the wireless AP even though it is not the gateway to the internet in this setup because my laptop has a prism2-based wlan card that can use the hostap driver. The desktop has a linksys USB wlan device that cannot use the hostap driver. I do not believe it is possible to setup an ad-hoc wlan network that can network share. Thus, my laptop wlan card is the AP running dhcpd assigning an IP to the desktop's wlan device but the desktop has the modem and has to act as the gateway to the internet. How do I do this? Setting up a shared connection with the wizard tries to make the desktop act as both the dhcp server (and thus AP) and the inet gateway. On the laptop I set the ip to 10.0.0.1 and setup dhcpd to give 10.0.0.5 to my desktop. This works and I can communicate and file transfer between the two systems via wlan. What I cannot do yet is make a modem connection to the internet on the desktop and then access the internet, period. Even though I am connected to the net neither the desktop nor laptop can access it thus far. Something is not setup right somewhere but I am at a loss to correct it. Can anyone here advise me? praedor
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