I need help getting a bridge

[legendarybibo]

So what I'm doing right now is I have my laptop connected through my wireless internet (Ubuntu 9.10), and I have a Xubuntu 9.10 Desktop right next to it with an ethernet cable going from my laptop to the desktop.

Right now it says it's connected, but I can't connect to the internet.

What I've done is I've gone on both computers and edited the settings for eth0 to share with computers, and I've even gone into the wireless settings on my laptop and edited it so Ivpc 4 setting's method was set to share with computers.

I downloaded the bridge utility on my laptop but I don't know what to do with it exactly.

So here's the setup I've got going.

Wireless Router ----->Laptop -------->ehternet cable ---------> desktop computer.

[Rubberman]

Move this thread to the "Linux Networking" forum for more help with this sort of problem. You will need at least to configure your routing table on the laptop to enable the desktop to access the internet thru your laptop. And you will have to do some configuration on the desktop to see the laptop as your network gateway/router.

[ptkobe]

legendarybibo: Just to say that buying a wireless card to your desktop may be in all aspects a better solution.
Unless you want to see how stuff works.

[nancym1002]

Bridge Utils simple setup:

Add a bridge
/usr/sbin/brctl addbr mybridge

Add each port to the bridge
/usr/sbin/brctl addif mybridge port_name

/sbin/ifconfig mybridge up

dhclient mybridge