Best way to share an EVDO card connection?

[nikemen]

So, I have a laptop with an EVDO connection, actually a USB connection to a palm 700wx, works GREAT, and I get about 400-700kps, just like an EVDO card.

I would like to be able to SHARE this connection, using either ICS, or using an external access point, a small travel router.

If I connect the travel router via Cat5 ethernet cable to the laptop, how can I enable INTERNET OUT on the laptop, to give the wireless AP an internet connection, with which it could then create a small DHCP AP?

I have sometimes used internet via ethernet, to enable the laptop, and THEN just done ICS to enable a hotspot, via WIFI on the laptop, but this is sort of backwards.

Would I need a cross over cable for the ethernet out of the laptop, to the travel router, or would just a regular ethernet cable do?

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[nikemen]

come on guys, you know EVERYTHING!

Must be a simple answer here.

[smugiri]

Try this tutorial that describes how to go about what you are trying to do.

You obviously would replace each reference to "wireless access" with "EVDO".

[nikemen]

So, not sure why I am having such a hard time with this.

I have the EVDO connection setup fine, and then try to make the bridge with wireless card. I haven't tried doing ethernet which is what I really want.

I just cannot get it to work. WHICH connection does one share, the one that HAS the internet connection, or the connection that DOESn'T but is open for sharing, but is bridged to the one that has the internet connection?

[Kyocera]

You need to share the one that has the internet connection, I am not familiar with EVDO, but if your laptop has the internet connection then you need to set up ICS with it, you may be have an IP config issue.

[smugiri]

So, not sure why I am having such a hard time with this.

I have the EVDO connection setup fine, and then try to make the bridge with wireless card. I haven't tried doing ethernet which is what I really want.

I just cannot get it to work. WHICH connection does one share, the one that HAS the internet connection, or the connection that DOESn'T but is open for sharing, but is bridged to the one that has the internet connection?

One last thing (and this one is a doozy), if you have a router that uses 192.168.0.1 as its address then this tutorial will not work as Windows seems to hard code this as the router address for the interface that you want to bridge with.

Try changing the router address and range to something else to see if things will work as they should.