Thank you for the replies.

I do have power kernel v48 and all the bells and whistles qtmobilehotspot required. :-) It must have been what tuxsavvy said, that qtmobilehotspot somehow left my n900 in ad hoc mode.

I eventually got things to work by reinstalling qtmobilehotspot and uninstalling again (and also reseted my router for safe measures also). Looking back, i remember some error message when i was trying it out so maybe it left some setting with the wrong value.

The thread rizbert seems interesting also. And maybe its me, but a shell script version of things somehow looks nicer and safer. ;-)

Again, thank you for the feedback.