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whoknows
03-13-2006, 12:02 AM
Ok, so basically I am trying to get my PS2 online by connecting it through by PC and I have tried to do it using these instructions: http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/118/62/

The problem is, I cant connect to the internet on my PC anymore once I bridge the connections. I did what he said to do in that situation but it still wouldn't work.

Can anyone with any experience on doing this offer some help? (BTW I'm on XP Pro if that matters)

Thanks in advance.
BasketCase1080
03-13-2006, 12:05 AM
Ok, so basically I am trying to get my PS2 online by connecting it through by PC and I have tried to do it using these instructions: http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/118/62/

The problem is, I cant connect to the internet on my PC anymore once I bridge the connections. I did what he said to do in that situation but it still wouldn't work.

Can anyone with any experience on doing this offer some help? (BTW I'm on XP Pro if that matters)

Thanks in advance.

did you try reverting to xp pro sp1 instead of sp2? Im assuming sp2 is what you are using?
whoknows
03-13-2006, 12:13 AM
did you try reverting to xp pro sp1 instead of sp2? Im assuming sp2 is what you are using?

As far as I know I am on sp1...but now that I check it doesnt say which sp I have...is it possible I dont even have on on my PC? I formatted a little more than a month ago, so I dont know if I have it or not anymore.
whoknows
03-15-2006, 08:37 PM
I am on SP1 now and it still doesnt work. Can anyone help please? I want to get my PS2 online asap.

Thanks
m6oo
03-15-2006, 11:06 PM
More details on your setup please. Your PC has two ethernet cards or what? Router? Wireless?? Throw us a bone here.
whoknows
03-15-2006, 11:28 PM
My PC has a wireless card, and I am trying to get my PS2 online by connecting an ethernet cord from my PC to my PS2 and bridging my wireless and ethernet connection.
m6oo
03-16-2006, 09:44 AM
Hmmmmm...I don't know about the particulars of PS/2, but the ideal solution would be a dedicated wireless bridge. Linksys makes one specifically for game consoles I think. Any reason why you wouldn't just get one of those?

Anyway, the way I would do this would be to use Internet Connection Sharing, not bridging.

To try this, first, get rid of the bridge you already set up.

Make sure the PC is back to being able to access the internet.

Right click on the wireless connection->properties->advanced

Set "Allow other network users to connect through this..."

For this to work, you have to manually set the IP address etc. for the PC's LAN connection and the PS/2.

PC LAN connection:

IP - 192.168.2.1
Subnet mask - 255.255.255.0
Default gateway - Use your wireless router's IP here
DNS - Use your wireless router's IP here

PS/2 network connection:

IP - 192.168.2.2
Subnet mask - 255.255.255.0
Default gateway - 192.168.2.1
DNS - 192.168.2.1

That should do it. One potential problem, is that the PS/2 can't act as a server on the network because with ICS you're using another layer of NAT with no router functionality. This will effectively shield the PS/2 from any inbound connection attempts no matter how your router is set up.
m6oo
03-16-2006, 11:29 AM
I did some more fooling around with this on a pair of matched laptops, both with Win XP with all the latest patches.

On laptop 1, I have wireless to my router and ethernet bridged. The wireless is providing the internet connection.

On laptop 2, I turned off the wireless and connected the ethernet via crossover cable to the ethernet on laptop1. The TCP/IP for the LAN is set to aquire IP address etc automatically (DHCP)

On laptop 1 I had to do the netsh thing as shown in the original link you gave in order to set the wireless adapter to "compatibility mode" so that it would connect to the router. After that, I had internet connectivity on laptop 1.

With this setup I could see that laptop 2 was getting an IP address via DHCP (good news), but it could not access the internet (bad news). I fiddled around with this a good bit until I realized that I have Zone Alarm running on Laptop 1. The firewall was blocking the connection even when I set the subnet to trusted mode. I had to turn it off altogether. After that, I had internet connectivity on laptop 2.

Lesson to learn...make sure no software firewall is blocking your connectivity on your bridge PC.

Just for fun, I removed the bridge on laptop 1 and reconfigured it for ICS. When I did this, laptop 1 automatically configured the LAN IP to be 192.168.0.1. It's ok to leave it like this because this is going to be it's own little subnet anyway and won't conflict with any other equipment using that IP. Although, it looks like you could go back and manually change this if you want.

I left laptop 2 configured for DHCP and I was somewhat surprised to see it actually get an IP from laptop 1. YMMV on this and you may have to configure your PS/2 manually when using ICS. Note that ZoneAlarm running on laptop 1 also blocked ICS traffic. I had to disable it again.

Hope this info helps.
whoknows
03-17-2006, 02:27 AM
Thanks a lot for all your help m6oo, I really appreciate it. I'm going to try all that soon and see if I can get it to work.

Also, when I do bridge connections I get this:
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/9342/networkconnections6kw.th.jpg (http://img125.imageshack.us/my.php?image=networkconnections6kw.jpg)
m6oo
03-17-2006, 10:08 AM
That's what I got before I did the netsh thing that was mentioned in your original article. My wireless wouldn't connect when bridged until I did that.

If you did the netsh thing and it still doesn't work, then I don't know what to tell you except to remove the bridge and try ICS instead, or just get a dedicated wireless gaming bridge.

Good luck.