"Shawn King" <sking***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have a situation where there are two laptops with WiFi, and one ethernet
>connection, but no wireless network in range.  I would like to set my
>laptop to broadcast the connection from the ethernet so the other laptop
>can surf the internet at the same time as I.  I thought that I needed to
>bridge the connection from the wired network to the wireless, but after I
>bridge the connections, nothing seems to happen.  The other laptop did not
>see my wireless card, and I am not sure it was broadcasting.
>
> I have searched the newsgroups and google, but I can't seem to find
> anything regarding what I want to do.
>
> Thanks,
> SK

> You must set your wireless network in AD-HOC mode. Follow the instructions
> in the below article.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx?pf=trueHi
>
> Robert....
>
> "Shawn King" <sking***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:ee%23bOh6NFHA.3704@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>
>>I have a situation where there are two laptops with WiFi, and one ethernet
>>connection, but no wireless network in range.  I would like to set my
>>laptop to broadcast the connection from the ethernet so the other laptop
>>can surf the internet at the same time as I.  I thought that I needed to
>>bridge the connection from the wired network to the wireless, but after I
>>bridge the connections, nothing seems to happen.  The other laptop did not
>>see my wireless card, and I am not sure it was broadcasting.
>>
>>I have searched the newsgroups and google, but I can't seem to find
>>anything regarding what I want to do.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>SK
>
>
>

"Shawn King" <sking***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you very much.  This is exactly what I was trying to do!
>
> SK
>
> DLink Guru wrote:
>> You must set your wireless network in AD-HOC mode. Follow the
>> instructions in the below article.
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx?pf=trueHi
>>
>> Robert....
>>
>> "Shawn King" <sking***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:ee%23bOh6NFHA.3704@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>I have a situation where there are two laptops with WiFi, and one
>>>ethernet connection, but no wireless network in range.  I would like to
>>>set my laptop to broadcast the connection from the ethernet so the other
>>>laptop can surf the internet at the same time as I.  I thought that I
>>>needed to bridge the connection from the wired network to the wireless,
>>>but after I bridge the connections, nothing seems to happen.  The other
>>>laptop did not see my wireless card, and I am not sure it was
>>>broadcasting.
>>>
>>>I have searched the newsgroups and google, but I can't seem to find
>>>anything regarding what I want to do.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>SK
>>
>>