Cable Crossover
How can I share wireless internet on a pc to a mac via crossover cable?
Currently the PC next to me has wireless and my mac has no wireless card. I would like to share the internet connection via crossover cable to my mac.
Any ideas?
You need to configure the network settings on your PC to share the network using whatever management software you have.
For vanilla xp try this set of instructions: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/homenet.mspx
At step 8 you want to select that other computers connect through your computer. You may need to change some of the IP addresses or for more specific instructions try this document:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316276/
The key is to look for “Windows XP Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)”
On the mac side you just plug in and set the network prefs to whatever the pc is handing out and use the pc as the gateway.
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