Thread: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
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twoboxen is offline twoboxen
2010-04-19 , 18:18
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Originally Posted by rambo View Post
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...3&postcount=94 (first on the list of replies)



Forgot to say that you should change the WEP (if using) key first, I hope you're not using that anywhere else.



The backend starts fine as far as the program itself is concerned (exit code 0), what is the problem ?

1. Can you connect to the Ad-Hoc network at all, what happens if you disable WEP ?
2. Do you get IP-address automatically ? If you do can you ping the N900 (10.176.159.1 in your case)
3. If you do not get IP automatically can you set one manually and then ping the N900 (10.176.159.1 is N900 ip, use it as gateway, use 10.176.159.5 as your manual IP [obviously the netmask is /24 or 255.255.255.0])

I have sometimes seen it happen (with my Mac laptop) that things seem to go fine but I simply cannot ping the N900 no matter what I do. I have no idea so far as to why this would happen.
Ok, I got it to work on a windows 7 notebook without WEP. With WEP it would connect, but it couldn't resolve the internet connection. It looks like it still has the auto-assigned IP address (169.254.*). Could this be a mismatch with WEP key using hex characters, but ascii characters on the other? My WEP key is all hex characters.

Testing to continue...

EDIT: ok, I got WEP to work. I first changed my key to have non-hex characters ("dog"), but it filled it to be "dog00". So I tried "doggy", and it worked fine. It seems that there is an issue if you use hex-only characters, perhaps.
Last edited by twoboxen; 2010-04-19 at 18:30.