How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?
Linuxguy123
linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 03:35:41 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 21:40 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Linuxguy123 writes:
> > What is the gateway for this port ? I put it to 192.168.1.1, because
> > that is how it would reach the Internet, but the software sets it to
> > 0.0.0.0 when I apply it. ?????
>
> No gateway setting. The gateway setting is applicable to the entire host,
> not a single network interface.
OK
> > I left DNS servers blank but somehow it automagically set the Search
> > Domains to be my ISP.
> >
> > I haven't added any routes.
> >
> > On my device, I set its IP address to 192.168.0.10, subnet mask to
> > 255.255.255.0 and gateway to 192.168.0.1 because that is the laptops
> > wired port.
>
> No, you just said, above, that you've set the wired network interface's IP
> address to 192.168.0.0, and not 192.168.0.1.
The wired network interface has an IP of 192.168.0.1.
I changed the settings to match what you recommended. No joy using
Network Manager. One problem is that the IPV4 settings don't make any
sense. If I set the Wifi port to "share this with other computers", it
doesn't get an IP address assigned to it. Hmm...
There is an IPV4 setting of "Local Link" I wonder what that means.
NetworkManager doesn't appear to have a help system ?
So, I reverted to using system-config-network and firestarter. I
disabled NetworkManager controlling the devices. Firestarter kept
saying that eth0 wasn't ready and crashing. I know I've run into this
problem before with statically configured ports and firestarter, but I
can't remember what I did to fix it.
This is way harder than it needs to be !
I'm hoping the Network Manager in F12 will be a little more refined.
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