Sharing a wireless connection over ethernet?

doomcup · 2010-08-04 18:38:18

I have two computers, one running arch, the other running osx. The osx machine is somewhat venerable, and has no wireless card. Is it possible to share my arch system's wireless connection with the osx system using an ethernet cable, and if so, how?

karol · 2010-08-04 19:36:48

Wireless meaning 3G or wifi?
I think you can get an usb wifi stick for $10.

doomcup · 2010-08-05 01:48:45

There's two problems with that. there are only two usb ports on the OSX machine, taken by the keyboard and mouse, and I can't really afford to get anything at the moment. And yes, I do mean wifi.

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karol · 2010-08-05 01:54:13

doomcup wrote:

There's two problems with that. there are only two ethernet ports on the OSX machine, taken by the keyboard and mouse, and I can't really afford to get anything at the moment. And yes, I do mean wifi.

Ethernet port? I think you mean usb :-)
How do you connect to the internet in OSX? On Windows XP there was a choice of settings: you picked whether your computer connects to the internet directly or via another computer.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_Share

sand_man · 2010-08-05 01:54:33

This might help https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101114

doomcup · 2010-08-05 02:01:09

karol wrote:

Ethernet port? I think you mean usb :-)

Yeah, I did, just woke up

karol wrote:

How do you connect to the internet in OSX? On Windows XP there was a choice of settings: you picked whether your computer connects to the internet directly or via another computer.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_Share

I've followed that wiki page, and unfortunately it didn't work for me.

karol · 2010-08-05 02:06:39

doomcup wrote:

karol wrote:
Ethernet port? I think you mean usb :-)
Yeah, I did, just woke up
karol wrote:
How do you connect to the internet in OSX? On Windows XP there was a choice of settings: you picked whether your computer connects to the internet directly or via another computer.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_Share
I've followed that wiki page, and unfortunately it didn't work for me.

Have you seen this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Internet_Share

phoederr wrote:

It's probably worth mentioning that eth0 and eth1 IPs on PC1 shold be in different ranges. I myself had a problem with routing when they were set up to 192.168.0.2 (by default) and 192.168.0.1 (according to the article).

doomcup · 2010-08-05 03:31:33

sand_man wrote:

This might help https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101114

That didn't work either. bridging wlan0 to eth0 isn't supported.

Also, if I'm not entirely being clear, I'm trying to get the internet from my wireless connection, wlan0, to the other computer over ethernet, eth0. Is there an easy way to do this and, if not, what's the hard way?

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sand_man · 2010-08-05 03:43:37

doomcup wrote:

sand_man wrote:
This might help https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101114
That didn't work either. bridging wlan0 to eth0 isn't supported.
Also, if I'm not entirely being clear, I'm trying to get the internet from my wireless connection, wlan0, to the other computer over ethernet, eth0. Is there an easy way to do this and, if not, what's the hard way?

I thought you would be able to bridge the two. I haven't done it so I don't know. It just seems logical to me.

doomcup · 2010-08-05 04:41:16

Okay, nevermind, I figured out what went wrong. wicd was interfering with the sharing, just had to take eth0 out of it. Thanks for all your help

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