Hi,


My situation is this: I have a Netgear DG834 modem/router providing my broadband connection. I have a laptop (running Vista Home Premium) connecting to the DG834 via wireless, and this works fine. I also have a desktop PC (running Ubuntu) connected to the laptop via gigabit Ethernet. I would like to share the internet connection so the Ubuntu PC can access it via the laptop.


However, so far no joy. When I attempt to enable sharing on the Wifi connection I get the not-so-helpful "An error occurred while enabling internet connection sharing" message. I Googled the error and found a couple of possible causes, the first of which being non-running services, which I then enabled. No joy. I then thought it was a problem with the router grabbing 192.168.0.1, so I changed the IP address of the router to 192.168.0.2 but left the DHCP range as 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254. Still no joy. I tried making sure that both the Wifi connection and the Ethernet connection were set as Private networks. No joy.


I'm running out of ideas now. I've had a search on the forums and they only seem to suggest the things I've already tried. Any fresh ideas?


Thanks,


Martin