I have been trying to get connection sharing working between my desktop and laptop computers. I was misinformed about not being able to do this via a wlan ad-hoc connection and am trying it that way.
My desktop (Mandrake 8.2) has a WUSB11 v2.6 wlan device and my laptop a prism2-based card, both connected in ad-hoc mode: desktop eth0 ip (usb wlan device): 192.168.1.1 laptop wlan0 ip: 192.168.1.5 The desktop has a modem (ppp0) and is connected and working. The laptop is managing to get emails via fetchmail but it nonetheless cannot access the internet otherwise. If I try to ping yahoo.com, slashdot.org, etc, it produces destination unreachable messages. I have been trying to setup iptables to work this with no success so far. Additionally, my desktop takes FOREVER to start KDE apps now that I am connected to the internet and running an ad-hoc network. It is not due to load or memory shortage (Lots of RAM, Athlon 1100). None KDE apps start up practically instantaneously. This behavior has only started since I began trying to connection share so there is a config problem somewhere causing a slowdown with KDE app startup. Can someone help me with getting iptables properly setup to NAT my ad-hoc wlan connection described above? I have been following instructions and reading websites on this but so far nothing I've found addresses this situation close enough to apply. Thanks for any help that can be offered. praedor
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