[Cialug]using ICS with a laptop

[David Champion]

Dan Hockey wrote:
> I have been trying to share the wifi from my laptop to another computer
> through a crossover cable. I've tried to do this in both xp pro and mandrive
> 2k7 on the same laptop, with basically the same results. Now for the funny
> part... If I use another card instead of the wifi I can get ICS to work as
> described in http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/ics but thats NOT the way I
> want to use ICS. If I wanted a permanent setup I would have gotten one of
> those big cat5e spools at lowes and run a line out to my barn. Has anyone
> tried to use ISC in this way(wifi to wired) and gotten it to work?
> -dh 

In Mandriva, run "drakxconf", and choose "Internet Connection Sharing"
from there. I've gotten that to work (wifi going to the internet, wired
to the internal (shared) lan). That's what we were running when Kevin &
I (and others) set up the workstations for the disc golf tourney.

-dc