Thread: N900 as a wireless modem router
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2010-08-01 , 16:28
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#18
Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
How well this works depends on if the WiFi driver can be put in Access Point/Master mode.
Seems that it cannot be.

Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
If that doesn't work, you need ad-hoc. This means only 1 device, and WiFi PSM (Power Save Mode) will be disabled which means the device will use considerable juice.
Ad-Hoc does not limit number peers to any arbitary number (but there are of course practical limits), power consumption if a different matter naturally (also, as you stated, because running both radios all the time will consume more power).

You will also need Titans kernel (or some other kernel with netfilter support) since the stock kernel cannot support NAT due to missing netfilter symbols (JoikuSpot does this in a userspace in a rather ugly way [they have trivial network hook kernel module that their closed userland app talks with])

MobileHotspot has scripts for setting up and tearing down the GPRS<->WiFi routing with NAT.
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