XP Home adhoc wireless with ics

[allan grossman [ms-mvp]]

Hi, John -

This Knowledge Base article ought to help a little -

"How to Configure a Static Client for Windows XP Internet
Connection Sharing"

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;309642

Good luck!


>-----Original Message-----
>I have a desktop and laptop set up with a ADHOC wirelss
>lan both machines are on xp home. All works fine with
>network and adsl ics but after 2 or 3 days the network
>goes down.
>
>The Edimax PCI and PCMCIA card manufacturers tell me
that
>I need to give both PC a static ip address but when I do
>this I cannot get the laptop client to see the internet
>connection but I can get the network to operate ok.
>
>When I use the network wizard it changes the fixed ip
>address on the laptop to a automatically generated ip
>address.
>
>Does anyone know how I can get the lap top and desktop
to
>use a fixed ip and get the ics to operate.
>
>Cheers John
>.
>