#1 2015-12-19 08:45:03

lordmacbayne

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Registered: 2015-10-26

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Share Wifi connection via ethernet

I recently got a couple of (I believe) identical desktop systems that they were giving away at work.  Wanting to play around with some distros I hadn't used in a while, I installed Mint and then Ubuntu Mate on one.  Both boxes lack native wifi, and I only have one wifi dongle device.  I think this is the dongle.

On the Mate box, I set up wifi to ethernet sharing as shown here.  Box number two was able to receive internet over this wired connection.

Ubuntu Mate was not performing well on these boxes though, so I wanted to try Bunsen (which I run on pretty much everything else I own).  I set box 2 up on BL and moved the wifi dongle over to it.  Everything is happy except that I don't seem to be able to get the same wifi to ethernet sharing trick to work with Bunsen as the host machine. 

What could be different that would cause this to fail?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Share Wifi connection via ethernet

I don't seem to be able to get the same wifi to ethernet sharing trick to work with Bunsen as the host machine

Please describe exactly what you have done so far and explain exactly how it fails.

I've never actually tried this but I think you should be able to do it from the NetworkManager systray icon options.

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lordmacbayne

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Re: Share Wifi connection via ethernet

Neither machine will resolve the connection. The host machine doesn't look like it's even trying to connect, the client machine just keeps trying.

I've tried another Ethernet cable, deleting and recreating the connection, and verified that it does still work with Ubuntu Mate as the host machine.