ICS not going through because LAN isn't connected?
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Posted by Funky Monk
(2 messages posted)
This is a difficult issue to phrase on the subject line and I'm Windows 2000 illiterate,
still there? Great, hope you can help!
I'm visiting family in Colorado and the 'entire' house is wireless, as in the modem
and router are not connected to any of the computers. I'm trying to set up ICS from
a laptop running 2000 that's receiving internet via a Netgear WiFi card and have
it share to an X Box 360 via an Ethernet cable.
Unfortunately, whenever I go into LAC 2-which is the connection I'm receiving the
internet from- and click yes after checking "Enable ICS for this connection" I get
a prompt telling saying:
"When Internet Connection Sharing is enabled, your LAN adapter will be set up to
use IP address 192.168.0.1. Your computer may lose connectivity with other computers
on your network. If these other computers have static IP addresses, you should set
them to obtain their IP addresses automatically. Are you sure you want to enable
ICS?"
After clicking yes, and wait, within seconds I get an error message stating:
"An error occurred while ICS was being enabled.
ICS cannot be enabled. The LAN connection selected as the private network is either
not present, or is disconnected from the network. Please ensure that the LAN adapter
is connected before enabling ICS."
Now the thing is, my uncle doesn't want me messing with hardware too much because
if I mess it up he'll have to pay someone to fix my mess, understandable, right?
My question is, does there have to be a solid LAN connection-even if only at first
to set it up-to enable ICS if I plan on receiving a WiFi signal only to share it
downstream to an X Box 360 via Ethernet cable?
Also, this is the only available option I have at my disposal, he doesn't want cables
running through the house and I prefer it to spending 100 bucks on Microsoft's proprietary
360 WiFi adapter. Note: I've used this method of getting online before, but with
an Apple laptop instead.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
Also, here are some minor details
-I tried setting up LAC 1 to share with the assumption that LAC 2 pick up the connection
and LAC 1 would transfer it over, that at least let me click yes without an error,
except it completely disconnected me from the internet.
-I've tried this with the console plugged in and on and while being completely disconnected,
-My ipconfig says:
Ethernet adapter LAC 2:
IP: 192.168.1.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Def: 192.168.1.1
Ethernet adapter LAC (LAC 1 assume):
Media State: Cable Disconnected
If you guys need anymore info short of credit card info and rights to my soul I'd
be more than happy to oblige, thanks again!
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