got a crossover cable to hook up my laptop with my desktop, the crossover cable only seems to work if i set the ip addresses manually to: 192.168.0.1 on the laptop and 192.168.0.2 on the desktop, if i do this i can freely share files/folders, but i lose my wireless internet connection on the laptop... if i set the computers to automatically detect addresses i get limited or no connectivity... ICS doesn't want to work, it says the address is already taken, no matter if the computers are set to auto detect or manually set addresses...

I'm sure you can mess with this every which way, but why not just get a router, wireless or wired, and plug into that to network your computers and share your Internet connection?

Perhaps I can suggest a solution. Don't use 192.168.0.x on the crossover connections. Don't use dhcp. Set each end to 200.200.0.2 and 3. Engage your wireless. Now you will find everything works. Reason it didn't before is your nics were in the same ip range as the wireless. Now they are not and ICS should work Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

tried 200.200.0.2 and 200.2000.3 same problem, when i try to set up ICS, windows says that the ip address is already in use...

i ran ipconfig on both computers and got these results: Laptop: C:\DOCUME~1\SIN>ipconfig/all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Maggot Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-CE-00-9D-40 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.3 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::213:ceff:fe00:9d40%4 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, March 26, 2006 10:23:55 AM Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, March 27, 2006 9:52:29 AM Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connecti on Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-01-4A-5E-50-1B Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.4.211 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::201:4aff:fe5e:501b%5 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%2 fec0:0:0:ffff::2%2 fec0:0:0:ffff::3%2 Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5445:5245:444f%6 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : A9-FE-04-D3 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5efe:169.254.4.211%2 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%2 fec0:0:0:ffff::2%2 fec0:0:0:ffff::3%2 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : C0-A8-00-03 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5efe:192.168.0.3%2 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Desktop: Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : main-maggot Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Network Bridge (Network Bridge) 8: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : MAC Bridge Miniport Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-0F-1F-48-45-3E Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :