I wrote a guide earlier on how to share your internet connection on ubuntu. But the guide was for non wireless sharing . well here is an updated version that allows you to share your internet connection wirelessly to other wireless devices in your home by showing you how to create a ad-hoc wireless network on your laptop .
This guide works on ubuntu intrepid ibex with the new network manager 0.7. (am not sure if this would work on hardy heron using the backported network manager 0.7) anyway. to make this work we need to a package called dnsmasq-base which can be installed from synaptic or geekily via the terminal
sudo apt-get install dnsmasq-base
once installed the rest is easy
just left-click on the Network Manager Applet-> Create new wireless connection,
left-click
give your connection a name (you can even add encyption if you want.) click on “Create”
name
you should now see a message that says “Now you are connected to xxxx wireless Network”. well that is all. Now when you search for a wifi connection on your wifi device you would see the one you just created connect to it and happy surfing.
Note: This will only work if the sharing system is not using wireless as its means of connection. if it is then the older guide would work for you.
hope this helps somebody.
Note: for some reasons i couldnt connect to the ad hoc wireless created using this guide wicd on my laptop (which uses mint-xfce) but i could connect and browse with my nokia N810 without a problem. so it must be an issue with wicd which i would find out more on.
Edit I can conforim that this guide works with Hardy Heron. But the network manager 0.7 has to be installed. to do this is quite easy.
first we add this repository to your sources.list with this command
echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu hardy main | sudo tee -a '/etc/apt/sources.list'
then we update and upgrade
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgrade ; sudo update-icon-caches
once this is done reboot and you should have a new shinny network manager 0.7 plus all the goodies that comes with it.
bigbrovar 
very nice. thanks. this will be very useful.
Comment by Duane — January 17, 2009 @ 7:14 pm |
thanks a million bigbrovar. u re d man
Comment by Chinedu — January 17, 2009 @ 10:44 pm |
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HEy there I’m having a problem. 2 days ago I had this working,
Now since I’ve re-installed ubuntu when I try to connect from windows, it tries to acquire network address then disconnects
Have you any advie for me on this mate?
Comment by Mark — February 4, 2009 @ 1:55 am |
@Mark did you install this package dnsmasq-base it is needed for the sharing to work
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Good guide, but I connected to the net using a N810 but couldn’t browse anything.
Do I need to chnage some configuration like you did in the previous guide?
Thanks a lot.
Comment by Alberto — April 14, 2009 @ 5:56 am |
@Alberto that is weird because i use the same it to connect with my N810 without any problems what so ever, and no you dont need to change any configuration like the last guide, just make sure you are using the latest network manager 7, and dnsmasq-base is installed. also note that is there is a proxy networking then u will have to indicate it while setting up the wireless for your nokia. cheers
Comment by Bigbrovar — April 14, 2009 @ 7:34 am |
How can i use this with ipod touch?
what abt settings in ipod ? dhcp/static ?
plz reply … i have been trying a lot of methods but havent had any success .. 😦
Comment by Natthu — June 18, 2009 @ 4:24 pm |
i think choosing dhcp should work. but please dont take my word for it .. i dont own an ipod touch (at least not anymore)
Comment by Bigbrovar — June 18, 2009 @ 10:43 pm |
Thanks for the great tip.. Worked like a charm. But I was wondering how (if possible) I can set up the ssid so that it’s hidden. Any suggestions?
Thanks
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will this work in Kubuntu?
Comment by Jeffrey — December 10, 2009 @ 10:49 am |
I followed the steps, and see my network in the dropdown list of networks in the network-manager tool on the laptop, but my wifi device (HTC Hero) doesn’t see the network. It does see other networks. I have dnsmasq-base installed, and network-manager is on 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2 (Jaunty).
Comment by Jean Jordaan — December 22, 2009 @ 10:33 am |
I am able connect to the created network but I could not connect to the internet with Ipod Touch by using this method. What can be the problem?
Thanks
Comment by Akin — January 24, 2010 @ 10:59 pm |
nice share friend 🙂
thanks
Comment by idhanz — May 19, 2010 @ 5:17 am |
Tried this with Ubuntu 9.10 to no avail, I just keep “connecting” and disconnecting from the network, and no other devices can see it. Any suggestions?
Comment by Lazlo — July 3, 2010 @ 5:53 pm |
I have this issue as well.
Tried it on several laptops, with the same result. 😦
Comment by Magnus — November 15, 2011 @ 4:17 pm |
tsingtor
Comment by yrdy — July 3, 2010 @ 6:47 pm |
Thanks, now I can connect to the internet with my iPod at my granny’s house too, not only at home. 😀
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Good one, keep it up
Comment by dammy — September 8, 2010 @ 7:37 am |
Thanks a million times for this information.Kudos
Comment by mathew — September 9, 2010 @ 10:31 pm |
Danke
Comment by GMT — October 30, 2010 @ 5:01 am |
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Darn. I followed this guide on Ubuntu 10.10 .. Created a new wifi network, my phone couldn’t see it, so I wanted to switch back to the normal wifi network.
No go.
I deleted the new network, restarted networking .. nothing doing, I can’t connect to any of the wireless networks I see.
Comment by Jean Jordaan — December 4, 2010 @ 9:54 am |
here too… 😦 ..
Comment by wildabdat — March 9, 2011 @ 9:00 am |
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Comment by Tnggvlbq — July 4, 2011 @ 11:18 am |
can u do the same with wifi and share the internet through the ethernet cord?
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Comment by Carrick — September 14, 2011 @ 6:06 am |
Thanks. Works !
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