Evilsheep117 wrote:I havent had any luck with this either. Apparently it doesnt matter if you use a cross over or ethernet cable because the Pi has an auto-detect.
I did try selecting both the connection that allows wifi, and the lan cable connection to the pi and creating a bridge between them. But this didnt work either

I have done this on windows 7 and can confirm that it does work, without any any special software on the PC. Had a wireless usb adaptor in the windows 7 pc and used LAN port to connect to the Pi. I didnt have to set up anything on the Pi to make it work.
But about the cable, for me it had to be a twisted pair (crossed) ethernet cable. I tried with a regular ethernet cable first, but it didnt connect at all.
At first I didnt have a crossed cable available, so I connected the ethernet cable from the pc to spare router, into the WAN port. Then connected the Pi with another ethernet cable to the router. That worked ok. Later I found the crossed cable and then I just connected Pi directly to the pc.