I’m facing the following situation: at the place where I am now to internet connection is set up by a dial application which is, of course, windows only. I have only linux on my laptop, but my girlfriend has windows 7, so she can connect to the net. What I tried to do is to set up an ad-hoc wireless connection on hers laptop and to connect to it from my linux box. Of course I didn’t succeded. I see the created wireless network, but can’t connect to it. I tried different encriptions too, no difference. Does anybody have some experience with internet sharing from windows to linux? How can I set it up?
I can use command line too, I’m familiar with wireless-tools.
Been a long while since I set this type of thing up…
First though, it’s likely that it’s possible to setup a direct dialup connection but only if you’re reasonably technically knowledgeable.
As for the shared Internet connection sharing you’re trying to setup,
My guess is that it should be fairly easy to find a cookbook/guide online, main configuration is on the Windows box.
IIRC main points are
You have to enable and setup ICS on the Windows box
You need to know what the Workgroup Network settings are on the Windows box, then make sure your openSUSE box is setup appropriately to participate in the same Workgroup
It’s likely that your network DHCP is going to set all Hosts on your network to point to the Internet router as the DG, since your openSUSE needs to point to your Windows box instead you will have to configure accordingly… likely manually configuring your network settings to point DG and DNS to your Windows box. To simplify setting up your network connection I’d recommend you actually use a wired connection between your Windows and openSUSE boxes.