Wireless Internet Conection Sharing

[brunswickite]

I have a LAN connection on my desktop that is using Windows Xp pro, I also have a Wireless PCI Adapter on it. I want to set up ICS with a Laptop that has Windows 2000 on it. How would I go bout doing this?

I tried to useth ICS wizard on win xp and was unsucessful. I want to use my PCI card as an acess point is that possible?

thanks.

They are both using linksys wmp11,

EDIT: my main problem is that i do not know how to set up my pci wireless card as an access point, wchih mode do i pout it in for that? i am using windows XP built in wireless client...

 

[Sketcher]

Have you tried Bridging your Wireless NIC to Ethernet NIC and then enabling ICS on your LAN connection?

 

[wjsulliv]

Are you sure you specified that the wired card as the internet connection and the wireless as the shared connection?

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: Sketcher
Have you tried Bridging your Wireless NIC to Ethernet NIC and then enabling ICS on your LAN connection?

yup i tried the network bridge, but i do not know how to set up the wireless card on the desktop as an accessppoint

what mode do i put it in?

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: wjsulliv
Are you sure you specified that the wired card as the internet connection and the wireless as the shared connection?

yea i have the wired card as my net connection, which works, and the wireless card as shared

 

[lobadobadingdong]

for all windows Internet Connection configuration the ip info should be

ics box ip=192.168.0.1 for your wireless card (ICS enabled, doesn't have to bridged as windows automatically bridges the connection)
subnet=255.255.255.0

remote boxes accing the ics box as the internet gateway
ip=192.168.0.xxx (xxx=any unique number between 2-254)
subnet=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.0.1
dns server=192.168.0.1

this assumes you have a good link between your wireless devices. if you don't have an access point, you will have to use an ad hoc configuration just make sure they are on the same wireless network, have the same wep level, and are on the same frequency spectrum


This info is also in the tech faq's

 

[brunswickite]

hmm thanks i will try that right now !

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
for all windows Internet Connection configuration the ip info should be

ics box ip=192.168.0.1 for your wireless card (ICS enabled, doesn't have to bridged as windows automatically bridges the connection)
subnet=255.255.255.0

remote boxes accing the ics box as the internet gateway
ip=192.168.0.xxx (xxx=any unique number between 2-254)
subnet=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.0.1
dns server=192.168.0.1

this assumes you have a good link between your wireless devices. if you don't have an access point, you will have to use an ad hoc configuration just make sure they are on the same wireless network, have the same wep level, and are on the same frequency spectrum


This info is also in the tech faq's

when tryinh to enable ICS on the wireless card, on my Desktop (the comptuer with the main interent connection), I get an error, with an "IP Conflict", my main connection is a static IP connection should that matter?.

also what do i put for gateway and dns servers for the tcp/ip setting on my wireless card

 

[HJB417]

are you running it in ad hoc mode?

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: HJB417
are you running it in ad hoc mode?

yup swithced it to ad-hoc mode and now it works ! 🙂 thanks for all the help guys