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Ready to cry.. seriously - Intrepid and Wireless ICS

Asked by jamiehay

I want to configure ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 to share it's ethernet internet connection over wireless network card. I've been at this for 2 weeks now, 2 weeks and it's bringing tears to my eyes :-(

This is how i want it to be

Internet >>ethernetcable>> Ubuntu Desktop >>WirelessNetworkCard>>> Xbox, laptop etc.

Please say someone has great knowledge of this as I'm crying right now, yes crying boo hoo hoo :-(

PLEASE

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Florian Diesch (diesch) said : 		#1

Don't cry! Everything's fine, I'm here now! Try your tears! [hand over slightly used handkerchief]

Now get yourself some coffee and have a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Internet/ConnectionSharing and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/ShareEthernetConnectionThroughWireless

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jamiehay (markey-101) said : 		#2

But that doesnt work because it still always says "wlan0" is not ready"

and where it says about stopping network manger(the command line)

It says no suc file or directory.]

Still crying

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Florian Diesch (diesch) said : 		#3

Could you please describe what you did so far (except crying)? Is your wireless network working?

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Jimbo (james-saveker) said : 		#4

You could try the following(from ubuntu docs)......

The "fix" is to edit /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh

gksu gedit /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh

Comment out :

if [ "$MASK" = "" -a "$1" != "stop" ]; then
echo "External network device $IF is not ready. Aborting.."
exit 2
fi

Like this:

#if [ "$MASK" = "" -a "$1" != "stop" ]; then
#echo "External network device $IF is not ready. Aborting.."
#exit 2
#fi

Save your changes and re-boot.

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