ICS Win2k

[SallySue]

Hey, I love gentoo, or what I have experienced of it so far but I am having trouble with internet connection sharing Here is my situation:

My dad has a pc that is running windows 2000 pro that connects to the internet through his starband 360 modem. The modem is connected to one of his two lan cards. I want to share this connection on my laptop, which is a dell inspiron 4100 while running gentoo 1.4 P3 optimized. i installed Gentoo by following the guide on this site but couldn't get any of the internet stuff to work so I used the stage 3 and GRP stuff. It installed fine and though some searching I got xf86 and kde to run on it, but I still cant get the internet connection to share. I have been using a cross over cable to connect to the other lan port on my dad's computer, and wondered if that had anything to do with it. Also, I tried to use analog X's proxy server on my dad's machine but to no avail. I am sure I set up the IPs and everything correctly but it still didn't work. The one thing I cant do is just click the enable internet connection sharing box in the TCP/IP properties on my dad's machine because when I do that something goes wrong with the satilite and it stops working on his machine. So, my question is if anyone has had experience working with the same type of problem I am facing would you please give me advice?

I'll be sure to check back in a day or so so I can try to answer any questions that might help you help me about my system or my father's.
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I work as a waitress and one day I was serving this guy who had a laptop with linux on it. We talked and he gave me a copy of gentoo for my laptop but never did get to show me how to use it so I need some help:)

[devon]