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victorhooi

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Registered: 2009-08-06

Posts: 109

Sharing wired internet connection via wireless?

heya,

I've just moved to the UK to work (for a short-period), and in my apartment, we only have an ethernet jack for internet.

I was hoping to connect my Arch Linux laptop, and then share this via wireless from that laptop.

I was looking for a quick and dirty solution, and I read that Gnome Network Manager had an internet connection sharing feature, which even lets you select Infrastructure vs Ad-Hoc:

http://jaap.haitsma.org/2010/08/17/make … k-manager/

Well, I'm on KDE, so I disabled Wicd (*sniffles*), and tried the KNetwork Manager widget - I couldn't seem to find anything at all about sharing an internet connection there. Does anybody know if this feature is just missing/disabled in KNetwork Manager?

Then I read the manual way to do it here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_Share
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sha … _interface

I tried the first command:

iwconfig wlan0 essid "My_Free_Wlan" mode Ad-Hoc

and it complained that:

    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Device or resource busy.

By this point, I'd re-enabled Wicd - I'm guessing that it's somehow interfering with this command? Is there any way to share a wired internet connection via wireless, that's still compatible with Wicd, or KNetwork Manager? I really don't want to have to manage all my future wired/wireless internet connections via the CLI, hence why I'm using Wicd (although I'll revert to KNetwork Manager if I have to).

Cheers,
Victor