Ad-hoc wired network problem

[pratik_narain]

I have a PC with linux mint 7 gloria installed on it and a laptop with ubuntu 9.04. I've got a crossover LAN cable to connect both for file as well as internet connection sharing. But when I connect the cable on both, i don't get connected. Please help me.

[Giblet5]

Unless you're running a DHCP server on one of those boxes, you'll have to configure a static IP address on each box and make /etc/hosts entries for those IP addies.

I take it you have a Cable/DSL router/firewall that also provides DHCP? Well, a crossover cable takes that out of the mix.

You'd be much happier adding a network hub for $10.

You can try to get Network-Manager to let you set up a static IP profile, but I've never done that.

I remove Network-Manager as step #2 of an install. I use WiCD instead and it just works.

Worst-case, you can remove network-manager and configure your network manually.

/etc/network/interfaces is where the config is set on systems w/o network-manager (most other unix-like OSes). An entry like this will work for one system

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
netmask 255.255.255.0

and like this for the other

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.3
netmask 255.255.255.0

On each system, execute

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

and the new net config will be in effect.

[pratik_narain]

I have modified the files as you told. Now connection is being established but I still cannot share internet connection or any files even after restarting the netwok interface.