Thread: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot
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2009-08-22 , 09:50
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In theory that will be possible. There are some caveats though.

1) BlueTooh DUN is a viable alternative.
2) The WiFi driver has to support AP mode. The new driver is open source and supports new MAC80211 framework so is no issue.
3) You might need some terminal work or write shell script. Don't worry, people here will help with that.
4) It always drains the battery (even on Symbian or Windows Mobile or iPhoneOS)
5) You should keep in mind wireless cryptography. None of those applications such as JoikuSpot support WPA(2), and the Linux WPASupplicant has to support the WiFi driver. Probably not the case. However, you could use something like OpenVPN or IPsec.
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