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Erazor 2013-11-20 23:14
Re: N9: Alternative Wi-Fi Hotspot app?
 
*bump*

+1 for a alternative app

danested 2013-11-20 23:48
Re: N9: Alternative Wi-Fi Hotspot app?
 
once upon a time, but what I would wish for, if possible, would be a hotspot app whic would allow hot spotting and networking without having to connect with other devices(file sharing mostly)

soryuuha 2013-11-21 04:17
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move along..impossible to implement infrastructure hotspot on N9 without support from Nokia themselves.

just sail along wit Jolla. the chipset difnitely will be using infrastructure hotspot.

juiceme 2013-11-21 05:47
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Quote:
Originally Posted by soryuuha (Post 1387798)
move along..impossible to implement infrastructure hotspot on N9 without support from Nokia themselves.

just sail along wit Jolla. the chipset difnitely will be using infrastructure hotspot.
Should not be impossible. Difficult, yes, but not impossible.

soryuuha 2013-11-21 06:43
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Quote:
Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1387805)
Should not be impossible. Difficult, yes, but not impossible.
you need to alter the driver, which is closed source. impossible in my book.

juiceme 2013-11-21 07:57
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Quote:
Originally Posted by soryuuha (Post 1387811)
you need to alter the driver, which is closed source. impossible in my book.
Actually, all the needed components are open source. Only closed blob is the firmware (wl1271-fw-ap.bin) and that's available from TI.

Kernel sources in the latest plus can be patched from ti-utils to load the AP mode firmware. There's no need for any funny business with user-mode bouncers, you can just use NAT and wpasupplicant to launch up the network.

HtheB 2013-11-21 08:09
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Quote:
Originally Posted by danested (Post 1387775)
once upon a time, but what I would wish for, if possible, would be a hotspot app whic would allow hot spotting and networking without having to connect with other devices(file sharing mostly)
Check out: Piratebox
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=88059

nieldk 2013-11-21 08:25
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Quote:
Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1387819)
Actually, all the needed components are open source. Only closed blob is the firmware (wl1271-fw-ap.bin) and that's available from TI.

Kernel sources in the latest plus can be patched from ti-utils to load the AP mode firmware. There's no need for any funny business with user-mode bouncers, you can just use NAT and wpasupplicant to launch up the network.
Totally agree, the firmware is a closed blob, but the driver code is available and actually, I am looking at what to do with that - regarding injection - and aligning used driver code with more current updates. It is a simple task I would say, not difficult at all - just timeconsuming when you only have nighttime to work :P

Jaracz 2013-11-21 08:35
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Hi!

And would it be also possible to implement WPA2 as a security protocol? WEP is kind of old and compromised...

Best regards,

Jaracz

juiceme 2013-11-21 08:38
Re: N9: Alternative Wi-Fi Hotspot app?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nieldk (Post 1387821)
Totally agree, the firmware is a closed blob, but the driver code is available and actually, I am looking at what to do with that - regarding injection - and aligning used driver code with more current updates. It is a simple task I would say, not difficult at all - just timeconsuming when you only have nighttime to work :P
The most difficult thing in the task is to make it coexist nicely with the existing Harmattan infra which would like to see the WLAN connection just as a client device. The kernel part is the easy part :D

You need to hack the startup scripts so that when you do a normal wlan connect it will load the normal mode wl12xx drivers (wl12xx_spi, wl12xx_sdio) and push up the wl1271-fw.bin firmware to the chip, and when you set up the AP mode it will unload the normal mode cleanly, push up the wl1271-fw-ap.bin firmware and kll off the network manager without affecting the 3g connection...


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