Thread: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
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rambo is offline rambo
2010-08-25 , 06:42
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Originally Posted by phase315 View Post
That clear things up a bit for me, rambo. Would I have to do this for every device that connects to my n900? Is there a way to make changes on my n900 so other device can connect to it without having to change any settings?
Well the dnsmasq in DHCP server mode should serve DHCP (automatic IP configuration) just fine and in many cases does, however there are some cases where the client devices don't like the flavor of the dnsmasq DHCP and require manual configuration (or there might be some other issue, I haven't encountered this problem and establishing the root cause with certainty will require fairly extensive knowledge in networking fundamentals).

In some cases manual configuration does not help either (but the "physical" wifi layer claims there's a link), then it get's really hairy to debug.
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