So I have an Xbox 360 in my room but my desktop is too far away to easily run an ethernet cable to it. I do however have a laptop with a wireless adapter on it. I did some Googleing and found that people have been able to do this through network sharing. I tried it but still no luck. When the Xbox tests the connection, it retrieves the IP address but it is unable to retrieve the DNS. Anyone got any answers?

I am trying to connect my xbox using my wireless adapter in my laptop. I know it is a fairly simple process of enabling the ICS on the LAN connection. When I attempt to check the box the message I receive is "ICS cannot be enabled, A LAN connection is already configured with the IP address that is required for automatic IP addresses." I have no idea what to do. I know there is a way to use an ethernet cable from laptop to Xbox 360 but I cannot fix this problem. I also know you can bridge the wireless connection in your laptop to your LAN which I tried but that would connect either. When I tried on xbox it failed the IP test. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I DO NOT want to spend 99 on that rip off wireless adapter…

im using the ethernet cable that came with the 360 to connect it to my laptop but the ip address failed during the connection test

When i test connection it said something about an ip address. How do i fix this problem?

I have a crossover cable, i am sharing my connection, and the internet on my laptop is working but i receive an IP address failed on the test connection. is there anything im doing wrong?