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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