Thread: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot
View Single Post
damion is offline damion
2010-01-26 , 22:05
Posts: 173 | Thanked: 160 times | Joined on Jan 2010 @ London, UK
#104
Originally Posted by qole View Post
So you're saying we could have a kernel module that we could insert that would patch the kernel and add the missing functionality? That would be really nice. It wouldn't be so nice if you have to disable or replace stock modules, though, because, yeah, that leads back to the problems of flashing a new kernel.
I'm 90% certain you can override system calls with a module, rootkits do it. Furhermore even a plain replaced module doesn't need to be called the same filename so deb dependancies need not be much of an issue and it could just be that the nat starting app just does a rmmod;insmod. Ugly but trivial for an end user.

But this is all academic until someone figures out why the device reboots under load.
Whose kernel? Using the stock one with an overloading module may help as everything else will match. Also has everyone who has tried to do this had crashes?

Do you get panics for less hetfy non http traffic. Almost every device under the sun can use an http proxy, so use one and use nat just for im/ssh/voip etc?

Damion