Thread: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot
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rambo is offline rambo
2010-01-04 , 22:13
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#55
Originally Posted by R-R View Post
Not too sure how ad-hoc differs from infrastructure mode... Is it only about power management or does it restrict it to only 1 user or something similar?
Wikipedia:Wireless_LAN#Peer-to-peer

Number of users is not artificially limited but physical network constraints apply. The N900 wireless module refuses to go into infrastructure mode (as-in act as basestation, being a client to a basestation is different mode) anyway so it's a moot point.

The backend script should now do somewhat sane setup/teardown (it needs to run as root/sudo, eventually the packages will setup sudoers right), however I trigger some watchdog on my device when I connect to the hotspot and the device boots soon after... laptop got IP from dnsmasq though.