How to Share Wireless Connection via Ethernet Cable in Ubuntu to Any Device

Written by Richi González Saturday, 4 February 2012

Hello,

Have you ever wanted to have internet in a PC that doesn’t have a wireless card, or maybe even play with your Xbox online, but the modem’s too far? Well, with this tutorial, you will learn how to share a computers wireless connection via Ethernet.

Difficulty level: Easy

1. In Ubuntu, look for the connections icon at the top right of your desktop. Click on it.

2. Go to Edit Connections.

3. In the ‘wired’ tab, select the first connection, and click to edit it.

4. Go to the IPv4 Settings tab.

5. In the drop down, select Share to other computers.

6. Make sure at the bottom, the check box to share to all users is checked.

7. Save & close.

~You will probably need to reboot your system.

8. Connect one end of your Ethernet cable to your computer’s Ethernet port, and connect the other end to whichever device you wish to share the connection to, it can be a PC, an Xbox, or whichever thing you can think of.

That’s it! If you get any problems, please let me know and I’d be more than glad to assist you. I personally, use this for a video gaming console, and it works like a charm.

Best Regards,

Richi

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7 Comments

1. William Rosenberg   |  Sunday, 05 February 2012 at 10:35 am

   I’m a complete newbie, so sorry if this is inappropriate. I tried this on two laptops running Ubuntu, be of which I can’t get the WLAN card to work. When I changed the Ethernet connection on the first, it started cycling between connected and disconnected. It’s continued to do that despite rebooting both computers. I looked at the ifconfig for the 2nd laptop and the initial IP settings were completely off for my home intranet, so I changed them manually. I then checked both laptops and the 1st is fully connected via wifi but cannot ping the IP address for the 2nd laptop. The 2nd cannot ping anywhere. The 1st continues to cycle between connected and disconnected at about 1Hz. Thanks.

   
2. Richi González   |  Sunday, 05 February 2012 at 8:24 pm

   Hello,

   Today I tried to reproduce your error, and I think I’ve got it. I also have two laptops here running Ubuntu, the first one, runnning Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, managed to pass internet to the other one; the second one, running latest Ubuntu (like 10.xx), had the problem you are having. I believe it is a problem with the OS. Even though it kept saying ‘connected’ and ‘disconnected’, it could transfer internet at random, but just for no more than 5 seconds each.

   If you are not getting internet at any time, make sure you are using an Ethernet cable and not a Crossover one. You can Google how to difference them. Also, you can try rebooting, I guess you have done it already, but just to make sure. Double check that you are actually modifying the tab that says IPv4 Settings and not IPv6′s. Hmmm.. what else? Well, try that and let me know what happens. Btw, which Ubuntu version are you using?

   Regards,
   Richi

   
3. William Rosenberg   |  Monday, 06 February 2012 at 4:22 am

   Thanks for the quick answer. Both have 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. The cable’s the same one I was using to connect the 2nd laptop directly to the router which was working well. (I wanted to move it closer to me with your workaround). I’ve rebooted both laptops more than once. Other thoughts?

   
4. Richi González   |  Sunday, 19 February 2012 at 2:09 pm

   Hello,

   I have managed to get it working by doing these:
   1. While editing connections, click on the IPv6 tab, and select Ignore from the dropdown.
   2. Run in terminal: sudo killall dnsmasq
   3. Reconnect.

   Let me know if it works for you.

   Regards,
   Richi

   
5. Roy   |  Monday, 20 February 2012 at 7:31 pm

   Hi Richi, I had the same problem and I could solve it by disabling IPv6. Can you please explain about the reason? Thanks …

   
6. Richi González   |  Friday, 24 February 2012 at 11:20 pm

   Hello,

   It is a bug that came in the new release. It has been reported already. Hopefully, a fix comes in the next updates. Anything else, let me know.

   Regards,
   Richi

   
7. Anandan   |  Sunday, 04 March 2012 at 6:05 am

   i shared the wifi internet connection through ethernet to my sony tv. now i can browse and use skype in my tv.
   my question is, my laptop is in 192.168.1.0/24 network.
   my tv is in another network. now i am not able to browse my dlna server in the 192.168.1.0 network. how to configure ip details while sharing the internet connection on ethernet.