Thread: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
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2010-08-23 , 05:07
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Originally Posted by eitama View Post
I'd like to ask a few questions about mobile hotspot :
1. Is it possible to get some logs / counter about actions being performed in the area of "DHCP Requests, Leases, Wireless peers connected, etc"
2. Can this information be viewed in a file?
3. Can it be added to mobile hotspot?
DHCP leases etc I think not, at least without swithing from dnsmasq to full dhcpd.

Wireless peers and (per interface) data counters should be possible as is.

Packet capture (to see DHCP requests [in case dhcpds logging is not enough]) would be possible but is kinda overkill to support in mobilehotspot itself, if you need it you know how to do it from the terminal.

So the information is sort-of available but it's spread around. List of wireless peers is the only thing I'm at the moment planning on adding to the frontend at some point.


Originally Posted by phase315 View Post
I have started Mobile Hotspot on the backend and it starts up but i have no idea on how to read all the processes going on.
Are you using encryption (if so try disabling that first) ? once you post the output I (or someone else) can explain what the lines mean.

Originally Posted by phase315 View Post
I have also tried the connection on my laptop and it does connect but stops at "identifying" and never actually connects.
What OS and version ? Once you post the hotspot backend output and we know the IP your N900 gets you need to try with manual IP configuration.

Originally Posted by phase315 View Post
I would post my xterminal results when I start it from the backend if I knew how...
There should be a "cursor" icon next to the ctrl, tab etc (if not try swithinc to/from fullscreen), activate it and paint everything, now in the top menu there is option to copy.

Remember to change your encryption password (if you're using encryption) before doing this, otherwise anyone reading this thread can see it.
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