How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

Fri Nov 13 03:26:09 UTC 2009

On Friday 13 November 2009 02:14:54 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> My wireless router is giving my laptop an IP of 192.168.1.x.  So I gave
> my wired port an address of 192.168.0.0 in NetworkManager.
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^
I certainly hope the .0.0 is a typo...

> On my device, I set its IP address to 192.168.0.10, subnet mask to
> 255.255.255.0 and gateway to 192.168.0.1 because that is the laptops
> wired port.

You probably also want to manually configure the DNS servers on the device. 
Use the same numbers that are set for your wireless (as given by your ISP).

Best, :-)
Marko