Setting up wireless network?

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john10001

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Does anyone know how I can set up a wireless network so that a laptop can share the internet connection of a desktop?

I am having difficulty enabling the wireless adapters on both the desktop and laptop.

There is a wired internet connection to the desktop that is always on, that I wish to share with the laptop.

Both desktop and laptop have zone alarm with windows firewall disabled.

Both adapters say "not connected".

How do I "connect" the wireless adapters and then set up a network so that the laptop can share wired internet connection of desktop and also send documents via network to the printer connected to the desktop?

Both Laptop and Desktop are running Windows XP (home ed I believe and sp3 32 bit).

The Desktop has an Aetheros wireless adapter and the Laptop has an Intel wireless adapter.

cheers for any help and advice,

John
 
Quiltface said:
do you have a wireless router?
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No. It is a wired router. I only wish to use the wirless adapters to create a computer-to-computer network only so that the laptop can share the wired internet connection of the desktop and also printer and shared folders etc.

This is what I am seeing on the Desktop

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e259/john10001/com/wireless_not_connected.jpg

I have managed to get the wireless adapter on the laptop switched on and connected now. It was a switch on the front of it that I completely missed. Its a Toshiba Satellite Pro one. I have set it so that bluetooth is disabled and Wi-Fi is enabled.

I just need to figure out how to get the Atheros adapter on the desktop to connect so I can set up the network between the two?

Thanks for any help,

John
 
Looks like even though I thought I'd turned on the intel wireless adapter in the laptop when I go in Network connection it also still says "Not Connected" and has a red cross in there too.
 
I would suggest to just get a wireless router and save you the headache of trying to setup a peer to peer connection and that's only if the wireless adapter supports it
 
johnb35 said:
I would suggest to just get a wireless router and save you the headache of trying to setup a peer to peer connection and that's only if the wireless adapter supports it
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I can't afford a wireless router and only want to connect computer-to-computer within one room. House is really big and walls very thick so wireless will not work anyway when one computer is two floors up. Connection will be bad for the internet. I just want to be able to share internet, printer, shared folders between laptop and desktop when in same room wirelessly.
 
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