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[RhetoricalRuvim]

I am trying to set up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) on my Windows 7 laptop, but it just doesn't work, for some reason.

I checked the checkbox that says something about allowing other computers to use this computer's internet connection to connect to the internet, for the LAN settings. As a result, the wireless connection lost internet, but not network, and the ethernet connection says "unidentified network," while the message on the non-host computer is something like "unable to obtain IP address," or something similar.

I used the diagnose option for the wireless connection, and the troubleshooter fixed the wireless connectivity problem, but the non-host computer still can't connect to the host computer.

I tried Google-searching for answers or solutions, but I couldn't find anything that works, and I'm tired of this problem.


Does anyone know what's wrong, or what I can try? I know it technically does have the ability to work (I mean the hardware, etc.), because it works when I boot into Ubuntu, but most things I do on the host computer are on the Windows side.

Thanks in advance.
RR.

[fread]

While the ICS on the host is up, configure your clients. Reboot or logout and login again to make the connection work. That is what I did.

[Alexander]

ICS should bridge together both LAN and WLAN adapters on the host (it may say it had lost connection, even if it hadn't), and assign a static IP address of which the Ubuntu computer should be able to connect to. It may even work on Ubuntu if it is set to use DHCP automatically, it may have defaulted to something.

Try to see if internet works on the host anyway after ICS is set up, and to run this on Ubuntu:

sudo dhclient eth0

[RhetoricalRuvim]

On the client computer, it says something like 'sudo: dhclient: command not found' , when I type in the terminal what you said.

By the way, it's the host computer that has dual-booting with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; the client computer has VectorLinux 7.0 installed.


Also, it appears to me that the host computer (with Windows 7) is trying to connect to the client computer, and says "unidentified network" , showing a bench for the LAN adapter; is there any way to get the host computer to accept connections from that adapter, rather than connect to that adapter?

This works fine when I boot the host computer into Ubuntu, but what's the point, I mean I have almost all the work I do on the Windows side of things.

The other option would probably be buying a device that would do the same job but without the use of my host computer, but I only have a couple of decades of United States banknotes, so I don't know if I can afford such a device.

[RhetoricalRuvim]

By the way, it's not a client issue; it's the host computer - when I boot into Ubuntu on the host computer, it's able to share the internet connection with the other end of the ethernet cable, but when I boot into Windows, it just doesn't work.


In any case, I decided to just buy one of these cheap (at least during the holidays, as of the time of this post) USB Wi-Fi adapters (this). It took me like a few hours of effort to figure out how to set it up on the VectorLinux machine, but finally I came across the answer online; I had to use this command in the terminal:

/sbin/VLwifi

But yeah, thanks anyway, guys.