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I have had some wireless USB problems and I have decided to just try and use the piggyback-a-laptop method.I have an Ethernet cord, a Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop and a Peppermint 5 laptop.I have tried the usual methods, I have not done any IP address and I am kinda frustrated, I've heard stuff about gateway problems, I might go crawling back to windows after 6 years of Linux

All help is greatly appreciated

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  • Maybe it makes sense to fix USB wireless problem. It is much easier than to setup network this way.
    – Pilot6
    Aug 3, 2015 at 20:28
  • well, if you have any advice it is GREATLY appreciated as i have tried all month to fix it, i dont think it is drivers, you can see the post i had about that, sorry about quality
    – Soren
    Aug 3, 2015 at 20:31
  • askubuntu.com/questions/655520/…
    – Soren
    Aug 3, 2015 at 20:31
  • @Pilot6 actually piggybacking the wifi from a laptop to a desktop is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay easy to set up
    – mchid
    Aug 3, 2015 at 20:34
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    @mchid Well. Easy for you and me ;-)
    – Pilot6
    Aug 3, 2015 at 20:36

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The majority of these instructions are for the laptop.

First of all, disable UFW firewall for now:

sudo ufw disable
  • Next, plug the ethernet cable into both computers.

  • Now, click on network-manager icon on the laptop and select edit connections.

  • Click to select the wired connection and then click edit.

  • Click on the ipv6 settings tab and change the method to ignored.

  • Click on the ipv4 settings and change the method to shared to other computers and then click save.

  • Finally, click close on the network-connections tab and run the following command:

    sudo service network-manager restart

You may need to run the last command on the desktop as well.


If you have dns problems, you may need to install dnsutils on the laptop or try using a public server on the desktop.

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  • Thank YOU!!!! it worked, i have wireless desktop up and running!!
    – Soren
    Aug 3, 2015 at 20:51
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    i think it was the sudo ufw disable, as i followed all other steps previously
    – Soren
    Aug 3, 2015 at 20:52
  • @Soren yeah, I believe you can fix that by allowing incoming access on port 53 to allow DNS requests and posibly 80 and 443 if that's not sufficient but I believe it is although haven't tested it in a while.
    – mchid
    Aug 3, 2015 at 20:56
  • @Soren also, you can accept this answer as the solution by clicking on the icon to the left to mark this as answered.
    – mchid
    Aug 3, 2015 at 20:58
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From what I can tell, you have a wireless network with resources you need to access from your desktop.

See this tutorial: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkConnectionBridge

The easiest would be to make a bridge(laptop):

apt-get install bridge-utils
brctl addbr br1
brctl addif br1 eth0
brctl addif br1 wlan0
ifconfig br1 up
dhclient -4 br1

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