Internet Connection Sharing not working with Inspiron 600m
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 10:00 am
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Posted by Ted
(3 messages posted)
I'm trying to set up Internet Connection Sharing on my laptop, running XP sp2.
My broadband modem is connected to the ethernet port, and I have a built-in wireless
modem that I was hoping to be the access point for the local network.
I had been able to do this years ago using Win98 and an Orinoco PCMCIA wireless card.
I forget how, but I was able to get that wireless card to function as a base station
of sorts (i.e. a named resource that other wireless connections could connect into).
I go through the wizard and it correctly picks out the two cards, but at the end
of the process the wireless card is not a connectable resource, even if I click the
advanced tab and mark that I want to share this resource.
I've done lots of permutations on connecting directly or indirectly (I'm connecting
to a DSL modem, so I think indirect is correct, but I've tried both).
I don't really even know how to debug this. I'm assuming that the internal modem
maybe can't function as an access point, even from the standpoint of a personal network
(really just want one other machine to share the printer and internet connection).
Thanks.
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