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I have an old laptop running Ubuntu 10.10 (server edition) that I want to connect to the Internet, but it's Wireless card isn't working properly, so on the recommendation by a friend, I tried to connect to my Desktop (Windows XP) through Ethernet, and connect to the Internet through that, but the old guides I can find are for the Desktop edition of Ubuntu (e.g. GUI-based), and I don't know enough about the Terminal to figure it out on my own.

Are there any good guides then, on how to configure Ubuntu to connect like this, strictly through Terminal commands?

Alexander
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If your ubuntu machine has the internet connectivity:

  1. right click the network manager applet.
  2. go to "edit connections".
  3. In the wired tab select the the ethernet connection between the two comps that should be there if you've
  4. connected the computers with the cable.
  5. click 'edit'.
  6. under ipv4 settings, change dhe method to "share with other computers"
oadams
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I don't know how to solve this completely, but as a workaround you could set up a proxy server on the Windows machine. Then, configure your network-aware programs on the Ubuntu machine to use the proxy server.

Scott Severance
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