Thread: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot
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kwotski is offline kwotski
2009-12-14 , 20:52
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rambo, thanks a lot for the reply and information.

Originally Posted by rambo View Post
I don't think [ssh tunnel would] be any easier to use and it really only would work for one user anyways (the advantage of sharing internet via wlan is that your friends can use it too)
Indeed. I was just looking at that point for any way for my laptop to connect out via the phone's cell internet connection. I since solved that by using the phone's cell modem over usb, a possibility I wasn't aware of at the time I was pondering the ssh tunnel

Originally Posted by rambo View Post
Some rather smart people are trying to get the modules working on the stock kernel, and if it is impossible (it seems some "unused" symbols that these modules depend on are stripped...) I'll see if I can make the powers that be to see the light and maybe we'll have a new stock kernel...
Yay! That would be a big improvement!

It seems odd that we have the ip_tables module itself but no obvious (to me) way of controlling it. Can you shed any light on that? Is something else on the device using the module (it doesn't appear in my lsmod)? Can it be configured or interrogated outside of the missing iptables binary? Otherwise, what is it doing there?!

Originally Posted by rambo View Post
In this case you only need to flash the kernel which will take less than 30seconds, of course it's a hurdle and a bit scary if you have never done it before. Flashing the stock kernel back is equally simple once you have extracted the kernel from the Fiasco (kernel+rootfs+whatever bundle) image so no need to lose any settings or data.
You know, it might be a bit less scary had they named it differently In any case I look forward quite a lot to having a fully fledged advanced router in my pocket! I'll probably give a user-made kernel a try if I see a few other people using it with no problems.

Thanks again for your efforts on behalf of this feature.

Edit: Just to add, that page you mentioned is a real goldmine of interesting N900 stuff! It's like wandering into Aladdin's cave in there...
Last edited by kwotski; 2009-12-14 at 21:21.