<div>On 2/21/08, steve <<a href="mailto:sfreilly@roadrunner.com">sfreilly@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NoOp wrote: | Does anyone know a simple, easy way that he can connect to the desktop's | nic (while the desktop is connected via wireless) to the nic connector | on his laptop in order to download drivers etc? crossover cable from the desktop to the laptop? im assuming the laptop has an ethernet port.... or why not just plug the laptop into the router? - -- Steve Reilly <a href="http://reillyblog.com">http://reillyblog.com</a> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> iD8DBQFHvNAw1L48K811Km0RAoYaAJ9L2EsKlqEgxzz3Fc8tThkbKtxYkwCfUstt xjdL3wv1hHTmMO56xOPJYUE= =VMK3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> Hey, <a href="http://www.fs-security.com/docs/connection-sharing.php">http://www.fs-security.com/docs/connection-sharing.php</a> shows how to set up internet connection sharing using 'firestarter' which is a nice front end to ip-tables. Or there's <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91370">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91370</a> It's a few years old now, but it shows a step by step way to (manually) set up connection sharing on an ubuntu box. The google search term that'll help most is probably 'Ubuntu internet connection sharing'. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+internet+connection+sharing">http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+internet+connection+sharing</a> Hope this helps, cheers, Owen.