ICS over Wireless: XP pro=Host>Vista Home=Client

[PSS-Mag]

Hello all, I'm trying to share my alltel wireless internet with a second computer usining a wireless router....

Here is the set: XP pro with the pantech EVDO usb modem, hardwired to Linksys WRT54GS wireless router, to Vista home via wireless.

I've never set up ICS and not 100% sure if I've done it right anyway, and really not sure with the router. I've been scouring the net for about 4 hours trying to find any information I might need to do this, seems pretty straight forward but it's not proven so yet. Nothing that I've found so far seems to work, so I decided to come ask the experts here.

[Force Flow]

You don't need ICS.

If you have the XP workstation connected with a network cable and the Vista workstation connected wirelessly, the router is handling everything.

ICS is only if you're using a workstation as a router or pass-through device.

[glc]

Force, I believe you have misread the issue. His modem is a USB cellular aircard and he has to use ICS in order to share it.

Matt, this is what you have to do.

Set up ICS, and share the Pantech connection to your wired Ethernet adapter. Verify what IP it assigns to the Ethernet adapter - it *should* be 192.168.0.1. The rest of the procedure will assume this.

Disconnect all cables from the Linksys, then connect a laptop or some other computer to it using one of the numbered ports. Log into it and do 2 things - disable its internal DHCP server and change its internal IP from 192.168.0.254. You can then disconnect the cable. Note that you do NOT connect anything to the WAN/Internet port on the Linksys.

You should then be able to associate a wireless client with the router as you have previously done - and the router will simply be acting as a passthrough device. The ICS host will be acting as your DHCP server to assign the wireless client an IP address in the 192.168.0.x subnet. You can also connect wired computers to the Linksys and they will work the same way.

[PSS-Mag]

Originally Posted by glc Force, I believe you have misread the issue. His modem is a USB cellular aircard and he has to use ICS in order to share it. Matt, this is what you have to do. Set up ICS, and share the Pantech connection to your wired Ethernet adapter. Verify what IP it assigns to the Ethernet adapter - it *should* be 192.168.0.1. The rest of the procedure will assume this. Disconnect all cables from the Linksys, then connect a laptop or some other computer to it using one of the numbered ports. Log into it and do 2 things - disable its internal DHCP server and change its internal IP from 192.168.0.254. You can then disconnect the cable. Note that you do NOT connect anything to the WAN/Internet port on the Linksys. You should then be able to associate a wireless client with the router as you have previously done - and the router will simply be acting as a passthrough device. The ICS host will be acting as your DHCP server to assign the wireless client an IP address in the 192.168.0.x subnet. You can also connect wired computers to the Linksys and they will work the same way.

That was the magic combination!!!

Thanks George, I knew it was something simple I wasnt thinking of or over looking, turns out I simply wasn't changing the routers IP. All good now! Thanks a bunch!!!