I found the source of the issue I was having: I needed dnsmasq installed on the computer with WiFi. False alarm.
- Kerrick On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Kerrick Staley <[email protected]>wrote: > I have two laptops, one connected to WiFi, and the other not. I have a > crossover cable joining the two. I'd like the non-WiFi laptop to be able to > access the internet, so I set the WiFi laptop's wired-IPv4 connection > method to "Shared to other computers". However, both devices just display > "Connecting - 1000 Mb/s", and eventually the non-WiFi laptop displays a > "Connection failed" notification. > > I tried disabling IPv6 on both laptop because I found a bug [1] indicating > IPv6 might cause trouble; however, this had no effect. Am I doing something > wrong? > > Thanks, > Kerrick > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/865001 >
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