MASTER support for connection sharing missing - Was: networkmanager offers no simple function to make one computer's internet connection available to other computers, using Wi-Fi / WLAN

there is one problem with this: adhoc networking doesnt really work in modern wifi drivers and I am not sure when support for that will be added to the mainstream drivers again.

NetworkManager has this feature now.

the gnome applet for 0.7 also implements this feature.

i assume knetworkmanager lacks the frontend bits in intrepid. keeping task open for that.

Don't see any such feature in the GNOME network manager. How would one activate it?

Hello Alexander,

Internet Sharing cannot be currently configured without falling back to the command line in GNOME. Network Sharing can indeed be enabled with the network manager applet, but that does not set up internet sharing.

The official ubuntu wiki guide currently requires command line black magic:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Internet/ConnectionSharing

There is a blueprint that requests one click internet connection sharing (just like network sharing), but it is not implemented so far:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneClickInternetSharing

I've been successful in setting up network sharing in Intrepid using the network manager applet, and the two computers could see each other, however I couldn't get internet sharing to work (even using the commandline), and so I gave up and booted into OS X. In OS X, you check "Internet Connection Sharing" in System Preferences, and give the network a name and optionally a password. That is all that is required.

Could this bug be reopened for the above reasons?

Alex Karpenko wrote:
> Could this bug be reopened for the above reasons?
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in intrepid/jaunty it works ... so please keep it closed.

Still needs doing for the new plasmoid frontend.

The old KDE3 frontend won't be getting this feature, I'd assume.

Feature committed for the 0.8 relese.

Should be present in the Karmic snapshot.