ICS over wireless

[chimpuk]

Just got a wireless card for my notebook, which connects to an access point connected to main PC.

It all works, I can share folders over it, do a remote desktop connection etc, but for some reason I cannot access the internet on the laptop

When I had it connected exactly the same but with wireless, after a while an internet gateway would appear on the laptops network connections but now it wont...i thought it was all meant to be automatic?
XP'a wizards dont help and the network connection one messes up the workgroup names and stuff...so how can I coax the laptop into finding the connection?
Remember the wireless connection works fine
Both PC's are on the same workgroup
The internet is a 56k connection
It is set to shared
Both PC's running XP Pro

And also, my sister, who has a wireless PCI card, can connect to the net perfectly...i dont get it

I can currently use the remote desktop connection to access the internet but as that takes a lot of bandwidth, when the signal is less than perfect it gets a bit dodgy

[zack371]

If your PC doing the sharing is doing DHCP, it should be giving you a default gateway as well. If not, just set it statically if that won't be a huge inconvenience. Just go the laptop that is working and do an ipconfig /all to get its network information (IP, Subnet mask, gateway, DNS) and enter all that the exact same way on your laptop except the IP. If that IP is 192.168.1.2, for example, then make your 192.168.1.3. Wth ICS on that main PC, its IP should be 192.168.1.1 normally, so that would be your gateway. :) Hope this helps. ICS can be a pain at times. Let us know how it works out for you or if we can be of more help...

Zack

[chimpuk]

cheers m8 :) got it working

forgot about the gateway bit, so set that to 192.168.0.1 which is my main PC, and changed the laptops IP cus for some reason it was aleady static but set to 192.168.0.47, so changed it to 0.2

thanks for your help

[zack371]

Great! I'm glad it all worked out for you. :)